This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... youth for transportation is even set forth at length. However, it is undesirable to revive these evil memories by further details. The question of Emigration had engaged the attention of economists and statesmen long before the famine of 1846-47. Already as early as the year 1835 a Parliamentary Commission stated that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ... youth for transportation is even set forth at length. However, it is undesirable to revive these evil memories by further details. The question of Emigration had engaged the attention of economists and statesmen long before the famine of 1846-47. Already as early as the year 1835 a Parliamentary Commission stated that in Ireland there were 2,380,000 persons liable to di- of hunger. As the country was periodically visited by famine, it was only natural to inquire whether a service would not be rendered to humanity by multiplying the means of emigration, and meanwhile thousands of the unfortunate inhabitants, weary of a struggle against irremediable misery and interminable oppression, had already solved the question for themselves by fleeing their unhappy-country, to find a new home, and found a greater, more prosperous, and more powerful Ireland beyond the Atlantic. During the fifteen years which preceded the famine of 1846-47 Ireland alone figured in the sum total of emigrants for more than 800,000, out of a total emigration from England, Scotland, and Ireland of 1,171,485. During the thirty years which elapsed between 1831 and 1861, of the total number of emigrants from the United Kingdom (4,645,247), she figures for three-fourths, or about 3,097,415. (Thorn's Official Directory, 1852 and 1861.) This frightful disproportion in the number of emigrants from the three kingdoms sufficiently explains why, as in the time of Moses, the word Exodus has been applied to the emigration movement in Ireland. The following Parliamentary Return shows the number of emigrants from the 1st May, 1851, to the 31st December, 1885, by Counties and Provinces, with the ratio to the population, according to the census returns of 1851, 1861, 1871, and 1881: --The exodus was acc.
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