The weather--its effects. Count Strezelecki. Mr. Egan's
account of Westport--Anointing the people in the streets! The
Society of Friends--Accounts given by their agents. Patience of the
people--Newspaper accounts not exaggerated.
Donegal--Dunfanaghy--Glenties--Resident proprietors good and
charitable. Skull--From Cape Clear to Skull--The Capers--Graveyard
of Skull--Ballydehob--The hinged coffin--Famine hardens the heart.
Rev. Traill Hall--Captain Caffin's
narrative--Soup-kitchens--Officials concealing the state of the
people--Provision for burying the dead--The boat's crew at a
funeral. State of Dingle. Father Mathew's evidence.
Bantry--Inquests--Catherine Sheehan--Richard Finn--Labours of the
Priests--Giving a dinner away--Fearful number of deaths--Verdict of
"Wilful murder" against Lord John Russell--The Workhouse at
Bantry--Estimated deaths--The hinged coffin--Shafto Adair's idea of
the Famine.
The year 1846 closed in gloom. It left the Irish people sinking in
thousands into their graves, under the influence of a famine as general
as it was intense, and which trampled down every barrier set up to stay
its desolating progress.
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