RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE IN IRELAND.
ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—I would ask you to permit one who has spent a long life in Ireland, chiefly in the south and west, to state that the charges of religious intolerance brought by many of your correspondents against the Irish people are absurdly exaggerated. I was brought up as a Protestant in the middle of a Roman Catholic community, and I must honestly state that I did not know what religious bigotry or intolerance was until I sojourned in a border county in Ulster. The great body of Roman Catholic Irish is singularly free from these vices, and it is not fair for people such as your corre- spondents—A.W. Richardson and the Rev. John McNeilage — to charge a whole people with a narrowness and intolerance similar to what they themselves seem to be affected with.—I
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