Abstract
The prospects for a healthy and abundant harvest in 1849 created a spirit of confidence that had not been evident for a number of years. The Times asked:
Can it be that there is a ‘good time’ coming? … a feeling of hopefulness is beginning to spring up, while the sense of utter despondency which seemed to have overpowered all classes is gradually giving way to a more healthy course of action, in the (perhaps over-sanguine) belief that the ‘crisis’ has passed and there is still sufficient stamina in the country to recover from the shock of a three years’ famine.1
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W. E. Vaughan, Landlords and Tenants in Ireland 1848–1904 (Dublin, 1984), p. 6.
W. E. Vaughan, Sin, Sheep and Scotsmen: John George Adair and the Derryveagh Evictions, 1861 (Belfast, 1983).
Carla King, Michael Davitt (Dublin, 1999), pp. 19–21.
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Kinealy, C. (2002). Epilogue. In: The Great Irish Famine. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-80247-6_8
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