Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . three it was from age, or in-tirmity, or the eftects of the im-prisonment, OConnell lost heartafter this, and the Repeal agitationgradually died all ])ublic questions in Ireland were now overshadowed Famine of by a terrible calamity. In 1845 and 184() the potato crop, the almost exclusive food of the peasantry, failed; and a famine followed in 1846 and 1847, quite unprecedented in Irel
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . three it was from age, or in-tirmity, or the eftects of the im-prisonment, OConnell lost heartafter this, and the Repeal agitationgradually died all ])ublic questions in Ireland were now overshadowed Famine of by a terrible calamity. In 1845 and 184() the potato crop, the almost exclusive food of the peasantry, failed; and a famine followed in 1846 and 1847, quite unprecedented in Ireland, and perhaps never ecpiallcd in the history of any European country. In 1847 the people died by tens of thousands of starvation all over the country. The Government, though adopting some measures in the shape of public works and other plans of relief, utterly failed to cope with the dreadful crisis. Noble efforts were made by the English people, and private sub-scriptions came in enormous amounts, especially from England ; but, in spite of all, one-fourth of the population of Ireland perished by famme and its attendant epidenncs in 184G and 1847. Yet notwithstanding the failure. liUV ) AT lAMKltA.( lUttstmted London Ncvfs, 1S47.) 340 THE NEW .^PIliTT AXD THE NEW PATHS. (1832-1846 of one particular crop, the country produced ample food forits population in these two years without the im]iortationof one ounce of provision; and during the whole time thatthe people were perishing of starvation, scores of ships leftthe Irish ports every day for England laden with repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846 never touched thefamine, for the good reason that, so far as corn was concerned,Ireland was an exporting, not an importing, countr}-. It wasa boon to the English people, who live mostly in cities andtowns chiefly by manufactures; but the only result for Irelandwas the ultimate ruin of one of its main industries, corn-grow-ing, and of all those depending on it.
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