>“Two-thirds of this vast extent of land is divided between two men – Mr. Black, of Kildare, and Mr. Mulligan, of Ballymulligan. The tenants are not in arrears. They have been driven, ejected and sold up with incredible severity.
>Of Mr. Mulligan’s exertions and ‘charities’ to meet the present crisis, it is needless to speak; he has given no money for food, while he has extracted all he can from the soil. He pays no taxes, builds no cottages or farm buildings, supports no schools or hospitals. The only duties which he attempts to perform are those which he considers he owes to himself.
>The people sell their last rags for food, and are forced to remain in their hovels until the weakest sting from hunger; their festering corpses, which they have no means of removing, then breed a fever which carries off the rest.
>During the short stay I have been here I have seen my fellow creatures die in the streets. I have found the naked bodies of women on the roadside and piles of coffins containing corpses left outside the cabins and in the market-place.
>I have met mothers carrying about dead infants in their arms until they are putrid, refusing to bury them, in the hope that the offensive sight might wring charity from the callous towns people sufficient to protect for a while the lives of the other children at home. During the last two days I have buried at my own expense 20 bodies which, had I not done so, would be still infecting the living.
> I purchased a little seed myself, which I gave in small quantities to the people chiefly to gain some insight into their position. I found them utterly hopeless, almost indifferent, about sowing, because they are aware that any crops they may sow will be seized on for rent by the landlords.
Bleak
This was a planned genocide by the British that they have never been held accountable.
Also it’s a tragedy that isn’t given the exposure it deserves and is often forgotten about even by the people of Ireland.
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>“Two-thirds of this vast extent of land is divided between two men – Mr. Black, of Kildare, and Mr. Mulligan, of Ballymulligan. The tenants are not in arrears. They have been driven, ejected and sold up with incredible severity.
>Of Mr. Mulligan’s exertions and ‘charities’ to meet the present crisis, it is needless to speak; he has given no money for food, while he has extracted all he can from the soil. He pays no taxes, builds no cottages or farm buildings, supports no schools or hospitals. The only duties which he attempts to perform are those which he considers he owes to himself.
>The people sell their last rags for food, and are forced to remain in their hovels until the weakest sting from hunger; their festering corpses, which they have no means of removing, then breed a fever which carries off the rest.
>During the short stay I have been here I have seen my fellow creatures die in the streets. I have found the naked bodies of women on the roadside and piles of coffins containing corpses left outside the cabins and in the market-place.
>I have met mothers carrying about dead infants in their arms until they are putrid, refusing to bury them, in the hope that the offensive sight might wring charity from the callous towns people sufficient to protect for a while the lives of the other children at home. During the last two days I have buried at my own expense 20 bodies which, had I not done so, would be still infecting the living.
> I purchased a little seed myself, which I gave in small quantities to the people chiefly to gain some insight into their position. I found them utterly hopeless, almost indifferent, about sowing, because they are aware that any crops they may sow will be seized on for rent by the landlords.
Bleak
This was a planned genocide by the British that they have never been held accountable.
Also it’s a tragedy that isn’t given the exposure it deserves and is often forgotten about even by the people of Ireland.