Show I DRIVEN FROM THEIR COUNTRY Barbarous Penal Code Was the Cause of Many Irishmen Forsaking Their Own Soil Soli Some writer has said that during the eighteenth century In Ireland the thc chief social feature was political oppressIon oppression op op- op- op and emigration The treaty of Limerick was signed October 3 1691 but despite the protests of King William who was apparently a brave soldier and und an able statesman the treaty was soon ignored as a mere scrap of at paper The odious barbarous prescriptive legislation known as the thc penal code was in full tull swing shortly after 1700 and large contingents representing representing representing rep rep- resenting the ll flower Ver of at Irish manhood and chivalry began begun to fly to the continent continent continent con con- of Europe and the shores of America These unhappy children of at lo 10 maddened by the English gadfly I fled lied into all an lands carrying with them thema n a memory that thu t enabled them to recognize recognize recognize nize tho the gadfly wherever encountered and a Ii spirit that prompted them to I swat it whenever It crossed their path I |