Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends During the Famine in Ireland, in 1846 and 1847Hodges and Smith, 1852 - 478 стор. |
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acres afford America amount appeared Appendix assistance auxiliary committee bags corn Ballina barony barrels corn barrels flour barrels meal Belmullet box clothing British Relief Association cabins Central Relief Committee CHAPTER Clifden Clonmel conacre Connaught considerable consignments contributions Cork cottiers crop destitute difficulty distress distribution districts ditto Donegal Dublin Dunfanaghy dysentery effect electoral divisions emigrants employment England Erris estates exertions extent families famine farm farmers feel fishing funds Galway Government grants improvement Inhabitants Ireland Irish Relief Committee Jacob Harvey JONATHAN PIM JOSEPH BEWLEY Killybegs labour land landlord letter Limerick Liverpool London Mayo means ment miles misery mittee months operation parish persons poor poor-law population port potato present proprietors provisions received rent resident Second-month Secretaries seed ship shipments Signed Sligo Society of Friends soup soup-kitchens starvation subscriptions suffering supply sympathy tenant Third-month tion union Waterford William Forster York
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Сторінка 139 - a brother, or sister, be naked, and destitute of daily " food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, " be ye warmed and filled ; notwithstanding ye give them " not those things which are needful for the body, — what " doth it profit ? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is
Сторінка 154 - I tried to give her hope of English aid, but, alas ! her prophecy has been but too true. Out of a population of 240, I found 13 already dead from want. The survivors were like walking skeletons ; the men stamped with the livid mark of hunger ; the children crying with pain ; the women in some of the cabins too weak to stand.
Сторінка 158 - A poor blind woman was crouching on the floor ; and my companion told me she was no relation to the other inmates, but that they supported her and gave her house-room out of kindness. Even the very nets and tackling of these poor fishermen, I heard, were pawned ; and unless they be assisted to redeem them, they will be unable to take advantage of the herring shoals, even when they approach their coast. In order to ascertain the truth of this statement, I went into two or three of the largest pawn-shops,...
Сторінка 188 - This place is one mass of famine, disease, and death. The poor creatures, hitherto trying to exist on one meal per day, are now sinking under fever and bowel complaints, unable to come for their soup, which is not fit for them. Rice is what their whole cry is for, but we cannot manage this well, nor can we get the food carried to the houses from dread of infection. I have got a coffin, with moveable sides, constructed to convey the bodies to the churchyard, in calico bags prepared, in which the...
Сторінка 8 - A reference to the evidence of most of the witnesses will show that the agricultural labourer of Ireland continues to suffer the greatest privations and hardships : that he continues to depend upon casual and precarious employment for subsistence ; that he is still badly housed, badly fed, badly clothed, and badly paid for his labour.
Сторінка 163 - We entered a cabin. Stretched in one dark corner, scarcely visible from the smoke and rags that covered them, were three children huddled together, lying there because they were too weak to rise, pale and ghastly, their little limbs, on removing a portion of the filthy covering, perfectly emaciated, eyes sunk, voice gone, and evidently in the last stage of starvation.
Сторінка 159 - I trust I shall be excused, if I express my earnest desire that the members of our Society may not consider that their duty to Ireland is fulfilled, by their effort to meet its present necessity. Its general and permanent condition is a subject in itself almost too dreadful to contemplate. Famine is there no new cry; it is a periodic disease ; every year there have been districts where has prevailed somewhat of that misery which now rules the land.
Сторінка 205 - In this village fever was terribly prevalent, and the food such as before described, but wanting the sand-eels and sea-weed. Advancing further in Erris, the desolation and wretchedness were still more striking. One may indeed at times imagine oneself in a wilderness abandoned to perpetual barrenness and solitude. But here and there scattered over this desolate landscape, little green patches appear unexpectedly where no other sign of man presents itself to you; as you walk over the bog, and approach...
Сторінка 155 - Another corpse had been carried up the street in a wheelbarrow ; and had it not been that a gentleman, accidentally passing by, had given money for a coffin, it would have been thrown into the ground merely covered with a sheet. Of burials without coffins we heard many instances ; and to those who know the almost superstitious reverence of the Irish for funeral rites, they tell a fearful story. Of the village of Cleggan, a near point of Clifden, he writes : — The distress was appalling, far beyond...
Сторінка 146 - Of course, among so many applicants as there were in attendance (110), a great number were necessarily refused admittance, as there were but thirty vacancies in the house. The guardians appeared to exercise great discrimination and impartiality in the selection of the most destitute objects; but some of those who were rejected were so far spent, that it is doubtful if they would all reach their homes alive, as several of them had to walk five or six Irish miles.