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O'Rourke, John

"With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines"

The Government--Famine not a money question--so the
Government pretended--Activity of other countries in procuring
food--Attack on Divine Providence--Wm. Bennett's opinion. Money
wages not to be had from farmers. Was it a money or food
question?--The navigation laws--Freights doubled--The Prime
Minister's exposition--Free Trade in theory--protection in
practice--The Treasury says it cannot find meal. President Folk's
message to Congress--America burthened with surplus corn--could
supply the world--Was it a money question or a food question? Living
on field roots--Churchyards enlarged--Three coffins on a donkey
cart. Roscommon--no coffins--600 people in typhus fever in one
Workhouse!--Heroic virtue--The Rosary. Sligo--Forty bodies waiting
for inquests!--Owen Mulrooney--eating asses' flesh. Mayo--Meeting of
the County--Mr. Garvey's statement. Mr. Tuke's experiences--Inquests
given up--W.G.'s letters on Mayo--Effect of Famine on the relations
of landlord and tenant--Extermination of the smaller
tenantry--Evictions--Opinion of an eyewitness--A mother takes leave
of her children--Ass and horse flesh--something more dreadful!
(_Note_).


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