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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. INTRODUCTION. The Irish famine was caused by the potato blight, which began in 1845, and has not yet entirely disappeared. The sudden and almost universal blight of the potato, which first set in in 1845-6, and has continued for ten years, had reduced to beggary nearly one-half of the peasantry in Ireland. The higher classes, too--Queen, Lords, and Commons--were all more or less involved in the same social ruin. The resources of the kingdom were a good deal exhausted by the moneys advanced by the Treasury, and lavished away on "relief works," which remain to this day a monument of our incapacity to manage any business which requires either judgment or economy in those who are engaged to transact it. After these ridiculous works were abandoned, then came the out-door relief to beggars, who squatted down in cabins, and lived on the produce of the potato-garden, till God said to them, the potato shall no longer support you in misery and wickedness there. The out-door relief was another Irish job; and several men, having farms, money at interest, and goods enough to support themselves without relief meal, were mean and dishonest enough to become paupers, and ate the meal intended for the perishing poor of the land. The working of the poorlaw system in Ireland has shown, in more places than one, that faction, political and fanatical hatred, and the mean love of pelf and power, are as strong to-day in the Celtish disposition as these bad feelings were in the darkest period of our history. The workhouse is generally the arena for the strife of tongues. There the Irish priesthood figure most conspicuously. Fourfifths of the paupers are, in most of these houses, "the mere Irish," and these priests " glory in their shame." In the Carrickmacross p...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150011238
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 100
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150011238
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 195 gr


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