Excerpt from Irish IndiscretionsIF anyone, allured by the title of this book, expects to find in it any matter of scandal, political or social, let him be warned at once that he need read no further. No reputation - except perhaps my own - will be the worse of anything to be found herein. I have no horrid secrets of Irish politics to reveal, no skeletons in the cupboard of anybody's private life to drag into the light of day. This book is a personal study of the past decade of Irish life which prefers to illustrate that period by its personalities rather than by its events. What I think about those personalities with whom I came in contact I set down here neither with favour nor with malice, writing the men as I see them for the good of things as they are. To that extent, and to that extent only, this book justifies its title.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.