Excerpt from "Ninety-Eight", Or the Repealer's Horn-Book: A Poem of Real Irish Manufacture<br><br>There is no nation in the world, small or large, whose history for the last seven centuries, is so re plete with deeds of rapine and slaughter commit ted by an alien government, as that of the Irish nation. Ialmost every generation there, saw inno cent human beings butchered in their gore, by the minions of the English government, and done in the name of law. The same dark deeds would have been witnessed to-day, among the Irish people only for the English government fearing public condemnation, because every thing that transpires now, is carried immediately to the most remote quarters Of the globe, either through electric wires, or on the Wings of the press.<br><br>The most gory of those atrocities perpetrated within the 'last century, in Ireland, is that of 1798, of which the following Poem contains a full pen picture. This poem was published in book form in Dublin in 1841, and it pictured those deeds Of '98, so fully, and lashed the tools of the English government in Ireland, so severely, that, on its first appearance, the little book was seized and confiscated, and it was sure transportation for any Irishman in whose house a copy. Thereof would be found afterwards and if poor Crohoore theauthor were known, he would pay for all;b.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.