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In addition a full Index has been appended. The new contributions include articles on the brewing and distilling industries; the bacon-curing industry; the milling industry; the leather and tanning industry; the Derry shirt-making industry; Irish canals; the Royal Agricultural Improvement Society of Ireland, and the North-West Agricultural Association. The book is still, no doubt, imperfect, if considered as a complete survey of Ireland's economic resources; but, within its necessary limits, it presents, perhaps, a fuller and a fairer statement of the actual industrial position of this country than is contained in any other single volume. It is hoped, therefore, that, for several years to come, Ireland; Industrial and Agricultural, may serve as a useful book of reference, which, if it does not always fully satisfy intelligent curiosity, will at least stimulate thought and suggest lines of enquiry. Economic Ireland is still a terra incognita to too large a number, even of Irishmen. The material resources of this country have, in turn, been unduly exaggerated and underrated. An unreasoning optimism, and an equally thoughtless pessimism have, too often, been substituted for the calm observation and consideration of facts quite accessible to scientific tests. In the following pages will be found what is believed to be an unbiassed account of Ireland's Economic and Industrial position at the dawn of the twentieth century, with some statement of the historical events that have led up to that position. Such a narrative is essential to any serious study of the "Irish Problem" - but, needless to say, it does not compass the whole of that problem. Issues, vital to its full consideration - the question of land tenure, for example - have, of necessity, been omitted from the present volume, for reasons that ought to be obvious. Such issues, however, are precisely those least likely to be overlooked in this country, or in Great Britain, and are those, also, on which a very large amount of information is already easily available in other publications. On the other hand, the matters - vital ones, too, to the progress of Ireland - discussed in this work, deal with questions on many of which full and trustworthy information has not hitherto been generally accessible, and in regard to which, public opinion is not yet sufficiently enlightened.
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