The conditions and prospects of Ireland1848 |
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... probably dispose of their estates to others , who could give their personal attention to manage them Decay of manufactures in Ireland The growth of the factory system a main cause 148 148 148 148 149 149 149 149 150 151 Few persons of ...
... probably dispose of their estates to others , who could give their personal attention to manage them Decay of manufactures in Ireland The growth of the factory system a main cause 148 148 148 148 149 149 149 149 150 151 Few persons of ...
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... probably correctly , to the thorough amalgamation of the Saxon inhabitants with their Norman con- querors . These , seizing on all the property of the country , reduced its former possessors to unresisting submission to their will , yet ...
... probably correctly , to the thorough amalgamation of the Saxon inhabitants with their Norman con- querors . These , seizing on all the property of the country , reduced its former possessors to unresisting submission to their will , yet ...
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... probably fewer than in an equal area in any part of Western Europe , -Spain only excepted ; whilst the tenants in possession of land are more numerous . * * The number of proprietors in fee has been estimated at about 8000 . These ...
... probably fewer than in an equal area in any part of Western Europe , -Spain only excepted ; whilst the tenants in possession of land are more numerous . * * The number of proprietors in fee has been estimated at about 8000 . These ...
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... probably it is one of the causes , which have led " to the want of that personal attention to the " condition of the tenantry , which is at once the " duty and interest of landlords , renders also the " impediments in the way of ...
... probably it is one of the causes , which have led " to the want of that personal attention to the " condition of the tenantry , which is at once the " duty and interest of landlords , renders also the " impediments in the way of ...
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... probably with- out sufficient consideration . No doubt many of them are hard and griping landlords ; but there are others , whose property is extremely well ma- naged , and it should be recollected that in many districts they form ...
... probably with- out sufficient consideration . No doubt many of them are hard and griping landlords ; but there are others , whose property is extremely well ma- naged , and it should be recollected that in many districts they form ...
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Expressions et termes fréquents
acres afford agricultural amount Annual Value APPENDIX Arable Land Arthur Young capital circumstances committees 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 expense extent farmers Galway 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 necessary number of persons obtain Occupation of Land owner parish paupers peasantry plantation of Ulster Poor Rate poor-law poor-rate population portion possession potatoes present Real Property relief rent Report of Commissioners resident respect result Roman Catholics sell settlement small farms soil tenant tenant-right tenantry tenure tion Tipperary Total trade Ulster union wages Waterford Wexford whole دو دو
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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 language of the country, dwelling-houses, form-buildings, and even the making of fences, are described by the general word
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 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 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 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 336 - Their condition is necessarily most deplorable. ' It would be impossible for language to convey an idea of the state of distress to which the ejected tenantry have been reduced, or of the disease, misery, and even vice, which they have 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.
Page 53 - The whole nature of Christian men appears, in such cases, to be changed, and, the one absorbing feeling as to the possession of land stifles all others. and extinguishes the plainest principles of humanity.
Page 10 - To have exterminated the catholics by the sword, or expelled them, like the Moriscoes of Spain, would have been little more repugnant to justice and humanity, but incomparably more politic.