The Encumbered Estates thrown on the market were bought up by investors ...
The Encumbered Estates thrown on the market were bought up by investors who proceeded to reorganize them economically by wholesale evictions, and for years hardly a ship sailed to the west without its freight of exiles carrying to America an unappeasable passion for vengeance on the dispossessor.
Yet there was never an
Irish tragedy without its satyric afterpiece.
It is characteristic of Early Victorian manners that in the Cabinet paper announcing his conversion, Peel can hardly bring himself to ring That Root by its proper name.it was observed that in all prayers offered up for our Irish brethren, potatoes were never mentioned.
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In 1848, Smith O'Brien, a respectable and humorless Member of Parliament who ...
In 1848, Smith O'Brien, a respectable and humorless Member of Parliament who seems to have been drawn to Repeal by simple despair of the Union, was caught levying war on the
With the maddening logic which Irishmen have at command he argued that ...
With the maddening logic which Irishmen have at command he argued that as he had not been convicted of anything deserving transportation, he must be pardoned or he m
Engels's Condition of the Working Class, which projected the image of the ...
Engels's Condition of the Working Class, which projected the image of the exploiting capitalist on the mind of the European