“STOLEN WATERS.”
SOME PRESS NOTICES.
“We can welcome Mr. Healy’s treatment of a difficult and obscure episode in the history of Ulster as on the whole impartial, and based on a judicial reading of a vast accumulation of documentary evidence.... In his capacity as historical detective he is fair-minded to a degree, which would amaze us if we were not so well acquainted with the well-tempered quality of an intellect that for subtlety and power and a dispassionate coolness is not surpassed by that of any Irishman living.... The wonderful net of intrigue by which all this was contrived has been carefully unravelled by Mr. Healy with a pertinaceous ingenuity worthy of Sherlock Holmes.”—Morning Post.
“Mr. Healy has accomplished a difficult task with considerable success. The result of his labours is an absorbing book.... The author has succeeded in weaving a romantic story out of the dry material of official records and legal documents.”—Athenæum.
“The story that Mr. Healy tells has something of the flavour of historical romance.... Mr. Healy’s method of argument on the main issue is calm and temperate.... A wonderful effort in legal and historical research.”—London Daily Telegraph.
“It is a truism that only the busiest men have any time to spare, and it is proved again by the publication of an elaborate historical study by Mr. T. M. Healy, the famous Irish M.P., who is as entertaining and brilliant with his pen as he is in speech. Mr. Healy tells his story with enthusiasm and thoroughness.”—London Express.
“Mr. Healy is a lawyer of original genius who, almost more frequently than any other man of his time, has performed the unexpected. He has done so once again in this extraordinary book, which tells, with many touches of eloquence and here and there a characteristic sting, the tangled story of a legal dispute.... A work of argument and legal history written with sustained eloquence and frequent felicity.... A task which only a passionate sense of duty and determined doggedness could have achieved. As the author in his picturesque manner puts it, the scent was often stale, but despite the difficulties and uncertainties that confronted him, he has achieved what he sought, and presents the result to the expert and the curious.”—Outlook (London).
“Mr. Healy constructs a story of remarkable interest. By dipping into it here and there some instructive glimpses will be obtained of the fashion in which Irish history was made in bygone centuries.”—Observer (London).
“It exhibits vividly enough some of the less favourable aspects of past Irish administration, and it will serve the writer’s purpose of stimulating a considerable amount of sympathy for the standpoint of his contentions.”—Pall Mall Gazette.