The Great Irish Famine
In Our Time: History
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The Famine in 1840
Parnell and the landek used evictions as part of their rhetoric. Those who were more likely to die during the famine whor people who didn't go on any land. So there wasn't an issue of evicting them off their holdings. But one of the slogans of parnell and davit was, keep a firm grip of your homesteads. And that somehow, in the 18 eighties, it wrung. It was very effective, even though, like i say, para ically, the people who suffered most were, for all intents and purposes, landless in the first place.
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