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understand the Constitutional effect of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland and the meaning of the expression "Home Rule" as an Irish Nationalist aspiration, it is necessary to consider what is now the demand of the Irish party, and what was the position of the Irish Parliament before the Act of Union.

The Nationalist call is "Ireland a Nation." Parnell said, at Castlebar, on 3rd November, 1885:—

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Mr. John Redmond, on 14th November, 1910, on his recent return from America, said:—

On the pedestal of the statue now being erected to Parnell in Dublin is engraved this quotation from his words:—

"No man has a right to fix the boundary to the march of a nation. No man has a