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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... number of persons supported by con - acre Miserable shifts of ejected tenants to support existence Condition of ... Total failure of the crop of 1846 66 Estimate of the loss thus suffered by Ireland 67 Page Note - Extract from Lord ...
... number of persons supported by con - acre Miserable shifts of ejected tenants to support existence Condition of ... Total failure of the crop of 1846 66 Estimate of the loss thus suffered by Ireland 67 Page Note - Extract from Lord ...
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... Number of persons employed in flax mills 153 Combinations of workmen have had more effect in Ireland than in England 153 Difference between wages of skilled and unskilled labour 154 Limiting the number of apprentices a principal means ...
... Number of persons employed in flax mills 153 Combinations of workmen have had more effect in Ireland than in England 153 Difference between wages of skilled and unskilled labour 154 Limiting the number of apprentices a principal means ...
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... amount of arable land . * The comparison has the same result , if calculated on the supposition that the waste ... persons per 100 statute acres ; while that of England and Wales is 43 . * When taking the census in 1841 , the number 20.
... amount of arable land . * The comparison has the same result , if calculated on the supposition that the waste ... persons per 100 statute acres ; while that of England and Wales is 43 . * When taking the census in 1841 , the number 20.
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... numbers have been annually increasing by improvident marriages ; and the very small demand for labour appears to render their condition hope- less . There are no means of ascertaining exactly the number of persons who were dependant on ...
... numbers have been annually increasing by improvident marriages ; and the very small demand for labour appears to render their condition hope- less . There are no means of ascertaining exactly the number of persons who were dependant on ...
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... number of persons who , previous to the 80 Large subscriptions in England Generous donations from various countries, especially the United States.
... number of persons who , previous to the 80 Large subscriptions in England Generous donations from various countries, especially the United States.
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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
The Condition and Prospects of Ireland and the Evils Arising from the ... Jonathan Pim Affichage du livre entier - 1848 |
The Condition and Prospects of Ireland and the Evils Arising from the ... Jonathan Pim Affichage du livre entier - 1848 |
The Condition and Prospects of Ireland: And the Evils Arising from the ... Jonathan Pim Affichage du livre entier - 1848 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
acres afford agricultural amount Annual Value appears APPENDIX Arable Land Arthur Young capital circumstances committees con-acre Connaught cottier Court of Chancery cultivation destitute difficulty distress districts Dublin effect electoral division emigration employment enable encumbered England English entails evidence evils exertions exist expenditure expense extent farms Galway greatly guardians improvement increased industry inhabitants injurious interest Irish Irish language Kilkenny labour land in Ireland landed property landed proprietors landlord large estates leases Leinster Limerick live M'Culloch's Geographical Dictionary manufacture Mayo means ment mortgage Munster number of persons obtain Occupation of Land owner parish paupers peasantry penal laws plantation of Ulster Poor Rate poor-law poor-rate population portion possession potatoes present relief rent Report of Commissioners resident respects result Roman Catholics sell settlement small farmers soil tenant tenant-right tenure tion Tipperary Total trade Ulster union wages Waterford Wexford whole
Fréquemment cités
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...