That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial ari… - Benjamin Disraeli

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That dense population in extreme distress inhabited an island where there was an established church which was not their church; and a territorial aristocracy, the richest of whom lived in distant capitals. Thus they had a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and, in addition, the weakest executive in the world. That was the Irish question.