England's Case Against Home Rule - Albert Venn Dicey - Bog

An author who publishes a book having any reference to Irish independence may, not unnaturally, be supposed either to possess some special knowledge of Ireland, or else to be the advocate of some new specific for the cure of Irish discontent. Of neither of these suppositions can I claim the benefit. My knowledge of Ireland is merely the knowledge--perhaps it were better to say the ignorance--of an educated Englishman.