The 1906 caption reads: “EVICTION IN IRELAND.—The main political struggle during Victoria's reign has been over the question of allowing Ireland to govern herself. Much of the land there is the property of owners who reside in England and know nothing of their tenants. Hence these are sometimes treated with cruel harshness, and the very police who are ordered to evict them, pity and seek to comfort them, as in our illustration.” The Great Famine, also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and dis
The 1906 caption reads: “EVICTION IN IRELAND.—The main political struggle during Victoria's reign has been over the question of allowing Ireland to govern herself. Much of the land there is the property of owners who reside in England and know nothing of their tenants. Hence these are sometimes treated with cruel harshness, and the very police who are ordered to evict them, pity and seek to comfort them, as in our illustration.” The Great Famine, also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852
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