The Legacy of Past Years: A Study of Irish History (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Dunraven, Windham Thomas Earl Of

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133470760X ISBN 13 : 9781334707605

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2019

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I rish history, but others and perhaps the most popular on that account are hopelessly biassed, and some display an ignorance that is mischievous in the extreme. I have before me a book, otherwise valuable, which is thus seriously marred. In writing of the inadequate relief given during the Great Famine of 1846-47, the author states that relief, such as it was, was given by favour, and that Catholics were deliberately excluded, and he cites as the authority for so monstrous a charge the accounts he had heard from emigrants to the United States who had gone through the horrors of the Famine. Poor, ignorant, starved, and most miserable peasants, what could they know about, or speak of, except the awful horrors they had undergone; and yet, on such hearsay evidence, and without any further examination, the Government of the time is branded with an iniquity so gross. To heighten the case against the British Government, the same author tells us that The cultivation of the Indian corn or maize became, shortly after the Famine, an important industry for the poorer classes of the West Coast of I reland, with every prospect of becoming as valuable an article of food as the potato, but that, in common with every industry blighted by the English Government, this important staple was lost.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133470760X
• ISBN 13: 9781334707605
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 309
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