Show DRIVEN FROM THEIR COUNTRY barbarous penal code coda was the cause of many irishmen forsaking their own soil all sonio sonia writer has said that during tile eighteenth century in ireland ilia chief social feature was political oppression pres slon and emigration the treaty of limerick was signed october 3 1001 but despite the protests 1 of klug william who was apparently a bravo brave soldier and till an able statesman tho the treaty wits was soon ignored as a more scrap 0 of paper the odious barbarous prescriptive legislation known as tile the penal code was in full swing swine shortly after 1700 and largo large contingents representing the flower of irish manhood and began to fly to the continent of europe and the shores of america these unhappy children of to lo maddened by jim alio english gadfly tied lied into all lands carrying with them a memory that enabled them to recognize the gadfly wherever encountered and a spirit that prompted them thein to ti swat it remorse remorselessly lessy whenever it crossed their path ja mf A |