text:  Every one has heard and every one talks of Irish grievances; but no one seems to know exactly what those grievances are: their existence appears to be so unquestionable that to dispute it is not only useless but almost disreputable; and yet if one venture to enquire of those who declaim most loudly against them wherein they consist they limit themselves to generalities and quote the admitted state of the country as proof positive of English injustice and Saxon misrule