She was treated as a turbulent and infected province within the larger island; never as a community with an internal economy peculiarly her own, with special sentiments, history, recollections, points of view, and necessities all her own.
Morley argues that Ireland was treated as a problematic province rather than a distinct community with its own identity.
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