The Condition and Prospects of Ireland and the Evils Arising from the Present Distribution of Landed Property :with Suggestions for a RemedyHodges and Smith, 1848 - 354 pages |
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... province 105 . CHAPTER VI . State of the country on termination of the Temporary Relief Act Plentiful harvest 106 107 · Difficulties lessened , but not ended 108 Much suffering still exists 108 Prevalence of disease . 109 Fever more ...
... province 105 . CHAPTER VI . State of the country on termination of the Temporary Relief Act Plentiful harvest 106 107 · Difficulties lessened , but not ended 108 Much suffering still exists 108 Prevalence of disease . 109 Fever more ...
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... province a character quite distinct from the rest of Ireland . The sanguinary warfare in the reign of Charles I. and the unrelenting and cruel policy of Cromwell , made another and most important change in the condition of the country ...
... province a character quite distinct from the rest of Ireland . The sanguinary warfare in the reign of Charles I. and the unrelenting and cruel policy of Cromwell , made another and most important change in the condition of the country ...
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... provinces have 51 and 53 per cent . of the inhabitants occupying the very lowest class of house accommodation , while ... province is a feature worthy of particular notice , as is also the shorter average duration of human life . On the ...
... provinces have 51 and 53 per cent . of the inhabitants occupying the very lowest class of house accommodation , while ... province is a feature worthy of particular notice , as is also the shorter average duration of human life . On the ...
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... province , sums equal to ten , twelve , " or fifteen years ' purchase upon the rent , are commonly given for the tenant - right ; and this " not only when the rent is considered low , but " when it is fully equal to the value . 66 66 ...
... province , sums equal to ten , twelve , " or fifteen years ' purchase upon the rent , are commonly given for the tenant - right ; and this " not only when the rent is considered low , but " when it is fully equal to the value . 66 66 ...
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... province . " It may safely be asserted that a successful attempt , which should deprive the tenantry of their present security of possession , would quickly check im- provement , and reduce the people of Ulster to a level with the rest ...
... province . " It may safely be asserted that a successful attempt , which should deprive the tenantry of their present security of possession , would quickly check im- provement , and reduce the people of Ulster to a level with the rest ...
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acres afford agricultural amount appears Arthur Young assistance board of guardians calamity capital circumstances commissioners con-acre Connaught cottiers court of chancery crop cultivation destitute difficulty distress districts Dublin effect electoral divisions emigration employ employment enable England English entails evidence evils exertions exist expenditure expense extent farms flax Galway gentry greatly guardians houses important improvement increased industry inhabitants injurious interest Irish land in Ireland landed proprietors landlord leases Leinster lessened live manufacture Mayo means ment middle class mode mortgage Munster non-resident number of labourers number of persons obtain outrages owner parish paupers peasantry places poor poor-law poor-rates population port portion possession potatoes present probably province of Ireland relief committees rent resident respect result settlement small farmers soup-kitchen subsistence suffering tenant tenant-right tion Tipperary townland trade Ulster union wages waste lands whole workhouse
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Page 334 - In most cases, whatever is done in the way of building or fencing is done by the tenant, and in the ordinary...
Page 283 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him * Arthur Young's Trtnelt m francl, ml. ip 88. « Ibid. p. 61. a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 298 - In the lowest, or fourth class, were comprised all mud cabins having only one room; in the third, a better description of cottage, still built of mud, but varying from two to four rooms and windows; in the second...
Page 283 - An activity has been here, that has swept away all difficulties before it, and has clothed the very rocks with verdure. It would be a disgrace to common sense to ask the cause; the enjoyment of property must have done it. Give a man the secure possession of a bleak lock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him a nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 274 - ... are perpetually building, repairing, altering, or improving something about their tenements. The spirit of the proprietor is not to be mistaken in all that one sees in Switzerland. Some cottages, for instance, are adorned with long texts from Scripture painted on or burnt into the wood in front over the door ; others, especially in the Simmenthal and the Haslethal, with the pedigree of the builder and owner.
Page 334 - It is well known, that in England and Scotland, before a landlord offers a farm for letting, he finds it necessary to provide a suitable farmhouse, with necessary farm buildings, for the proper management of the farm. He puts the gates and fences into good order, and he also takes upon himself a great part of the burden of keeping the buildings in repair during the term ; and the rent is fixed with reference to this state of things. Such, at least, is generally the case, although special contracts...
Page 334 - Ireland, the landlord builds neither dwelling-house nor farm-offices, nor puts fences, gates, &c. into good order, before he lets his land to a tenant. The cases in which a landlord does any of those things are the exceptions.
Page 30 - It was a machine of wise and elaborate contrivance, and as well fitted for the oppression, impoverishment, and degradation of a people and the debasement, in them, of human nature itself...
Page 341 - ... it would be impossible to describe adequately the sufferings and privations which the cottiers and labourers and their families in most part of the country endure ;" that " in many districts their only food is the potato, their only beverage water ;" that " their cabins are seldom a protection against the weather ; " that " a bed ora blanket is a rare luxury ; " and that " nearly in all, their pig and their manure heap constitute their only property...
Page 336 - ... propagated in the towns wherein they have settled ; so that not only they who have been ejected have been rendered miserable, but they have carried with them and propagated that misery. They have increased the stock of labour, they have rendered the habitations of those who received them more crowded, they have given occasion to the dissemination of disease, they have been obliged to resort to theft, and all manner of vice and iniquity, to procure subsistence ; but what is perhaps the most painful...