. History of the Queen's County . BALLYKIIXAVAN(Hunt Walsh). \o: I., 1> .^^;, \.l M IP -- 777. THE IQTH CENTURY, 1S0O-1S30. 645 In the year 1828, political excitement ran lu^h in IreLincl. On the8th of September, the Lord Lieutenant (,/^iesey) wrote to Mr. Peel,that the threatening language of both oi)p()suig parties was violent inthe extreme.^ Added to this state of feelnig, the peasantry feltaggrieved by social evils that affected their class, ownig to high rents,increasing evictions, estate exactions, the levying of tithes, etc. yotherelement in popular discontent was the po\erty and dis
. History of the Queen's County . BALLYKIIXAVAN(Hunt Walsh). \o: I., 1> .^^;, \.l M IP -- 777. THE IQTH CENTURY, 1S0O-1S30. 645 In the year 1828, political excitement ran lu^h in IreLincl. On the8th of September, the Lord Lieutenant (,/^iesey) wrote to Mr. Peel,that the threatening language of both oi)p()suig parties was violent inthe extreme.^ Added to this state of feelnig, the peasantry feltaggrieved by social evils that affected their class, ownig to high rents,increasing evictions, estate exactions, the levying of tithes, etc. yotherelement in popular discontent was the po\erty and distress which pre-vailed among the masses, and for which no poor laws had been no general system of education had been established by law, fewof the peasantry could read or write, while their ignorance of generalcauses and results affecting their condition \ci[ them a prey to design-ing emissaries, and un])rincipled or factious fanatics. The secretsocieties of Whitefeet and Blackfeet wc-re rampant, terrorism beingemp
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