Here are a few: "Distress," "Destitution,"
"Dearth of provisions," "Severe destitution," "Severe suffering,"
"Extreme distress," as above; "Extreme misery," "Extreme destitution,"
etc., etc. The Society of Friends, with honest plainspeaking, almost
invariably used the word "Famine;" and they named their report,
"Transactions during the Famine in Ireland."
[217] Commissariat Series, part I, p. 409.
[218] Commissariat Series, part I, p. 382.
[219] _Ib._ p. 442.
[220] Appendix to Report of British Association, p. 181.
[221] Report of Central Relief Committee of Society of Friends, p. 168.
[222] This Workhouse was built to accommodate 900 persons. The Fever
Hospital and sheds had room for only 250.
[223] _A Visit to Connaught in the Autumn of_ 1847: by James H. Tuke, in
a letter to the Central Committee of the Society of Friends, Dublin, p.
8.
At the end of February there was a meeting of coroners in Cork, at which
they came to the determination of holding no more starvation inquests.
[224] Letters from Mayo to the Dublin _Freeman's Journal_, signed W.G.
[225] The italics in the above quotation are W.G.'s.
[226] It is not to be inferred from this, that evictions were rare in
Ireland immediately preceding the Famine.
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