ABSTRACT
Ireland is an island in the Atlantic. She lies immediately to the west of Britain. Her sea-indented west coast is continuous with that of Atlantic Europe and with the west of Scotland and Norway, this whole long seaboard united from Cadiz to Bergen by the Atlantic Ocean. The eastern half of the country has been left far richer by Nature than the west, and it looks across a less hazardous sea towards Britain, and beyond to the Low Countries and Jutland and the mouths of the rivers Rhine and Elbe.
