Woodham smith the great hunger7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() After the first invasions, the first conquests, the Irish hated the English with the hatred of the defeated and the dispossessed. The hostility between England and Ireland, which more than six centuries had failed to extinguish, had its roots first of all in race. ![]() The country had been conquered not once but several times, the land had been confiscated and redistributed over and over again, the population had been brought to the verge of extinction - after Cromwell’s conquest and settlement only some half million Irish survived - yet an Irish nation still existed, separate, numerous, and hostile. Ireland had first been invaded in 1169 it was now 1845, yet she had been neither assimilated nor subdued. ![]() AT THE beginning of the year 1845 the state of Ireland was, as it had been for nearly seven hundred years, a source of grave anxiety to England. ![]()
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