SECRETARY TO THE LOYAL NATIONAL REPEAL ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND.

17TH MARCH, 1846.

DUBLIN:

PRINTED BY J. BROWNE, 21, NASSAU-STREET.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

SEP 27 1917

SUBSCRIPTION OF 1916

INDEX.

Page

ABSENTEEISM.

Professor M'Cullogh's strange Theories

164-5

Drain by Absenteeism (Mr. John O'Connell's Repeal Dic.

tionary)

165

...

Baker, Andrew

EVIDENCE of Injury to Ireland thereby, viz.:

...

Blackburne, Francis, Esq.

Bowen, Robert

Bruce, Jonathan

Cannon, P.

Crosby, W. T. Esq.

171

166

170

168

170

169

Day, Hon. Judge

Deane, Edward

...

Dunne, John, Esq.

166

170

166

Fletcher, Hon. Judge-remarkable declaration

...

...

O'Brien, Cornelius

Hogg, Godfrey

Johnstone, Colonel Ralph

Jones, Theophilus

Keane, Rev. Wm., P.P.

Kelly, James

Mahony, Keane

O'Callaghan, G.

170.

166

170

168

171

...

169

167

167

O'Sullivan, Patrick

Pope, W.

Rotheram, E. Esq.

Stapleton, Hovendon, Esq.

Warburton, Major

169

169

167

167

165

Wilson, D. J.

AGITATION, Crime not chargeable to

Chartist aid refused by Irish Repealers

Page

CAUSES OF DISCONTENT.

Condition of the People. (See also "Ejectment system,” “Crime.”)
Report of Commons' Committee, 1830-" One fourth unem-
ployed"- "Misery which no language can describe,"
Poor Law Report-shocking description
Devon Report" Badly housed"-" badly fed," &c.
"Sufferings greater than any people in Europe

ditto

have to sustain"

...

...

33, 34
36, 37
41

43, 213

...

EVIDENCE of
Doyle, Right Rev. Dr.-Lives of many hundreds short-
ened by distress-existence better terminated any way
than continued as it is

...

63

...

...

Fletcher, Hon. Justice, declaration of, in 1814, that " an
English farmer would refuse to eat the flesh of a hog
so lodged and fed as an Irish peasant.'
Newenham, W. H. W. Esq., "Never saw any peasantry
so badly off."
Nimmo, Alexander, Esq. “Food, potatoes and water.'
O'Driscoll, John Esq. "Have nothing but potatoes
and water, seldom salt."

EVIDENCE of CAUSES of discontent, from Poor Enquiry
Reports, viz.

FOOD wretched and insufficient,

Connaught Counties and Baronies
Leinster

65, 66
66, 71

71, 73

73, 75

75

COTTAGES AND CABINS unfit for human residence:—

Connaught Counties and Baronies

...

...

...

No external conveniencies-dug out to form walls-
always damp no second story-no grates or ceiling
-seldom a window, &c.

88

CLOTHING, by day and night ragged and wretched in the ex-
treme, and

FURNITURE, miserable and scanty:

Connaught Counties and Baronies

EARNINGS OF LABOURERS, "from 2s. to 2s. 6d. a week" or

Reflections hereon, and appeal to Englishmen on impolicy,
as regards their own pecuniary interests, of keeping
Ireland in a state of wretchedness and poverty

211

210

213

209

213

209

213

211

210

212

...

211

208

211

31

44, 49, 50

47, 48

49

52

CHARACTER OF THE IRISH PEOPLE.

Beecher, W. W.-His evidence, their submissiveness
Cashel, Archbishop of Their gratitude for justice
Collins, Rev. M., P.P.

ditto

Cropper, James-Their anxiety for education

Curry, Colonel-Grateful and easily governed

Devon Report-Their patient and dreadful sufferings,

Lawlor, James P.P.-Amenable, charitable, laborious
Nicholls, Mr. Commissioner-"Starved but would not
steal"

...

Rochfort, J. J.-Their charity and benevolence
Warburton, Major-Will work for one meal of food
Wiggins, John-Industrious and honest to the extreme

COERCION BILL-Period chosen to introduce it
Extreme severity of its enactments against Liberty
Unlimited power of Taxation
Non-responsibility of execution
Proposed as a perpetual Law

COERCION LAWS.-Grievous abuse of-proved by
EVIDENCE of

...

Remarkable facts stated by Justice Fletcher-innocent
persons transported to annul leases in which they
were lives

Dillon, John, Esq.".

Dunne, John, Esq.

COMMISSIONS and COMMITTEES of Enquiry on Ireland

On Bogs, 1814-Quantity reclaimable