the most enduring cultural tradition which the Irish peasantry brought—to the third and fourth generation—into England was that of a semi-feudal nationalist Church. In the most squalid cellars there might still be found some of the hocus-pocus of Romanism, the candlesticks, the crucifix, and the “showy-coloured prints of saints and martyrs” alongside the print of O’Connell, the “Liberator”.
