The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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EFFECTS ON IRELAND and the Berlin Decrees caused a silk famine in 1809, which A-D. 1776 reduced them to dire distress’. In so far as the war-prices gave a stimulus to agriculture, the Peace must have brought a reaction similar to that which, despite the action of the Corn Law of 1815, was so seriously felt in England. While Ireland had shared but little in the prosperity of war times, she undoubtedly suffered from the succeeding depression. The conditions of life were exactly those which made her feel the brunt of the trouble most severely. In and sub- England, where there was large capital, the distress did to Farming some extent act as a stimulant to call out more skill and jpeg enterprise ; in Ireland, where farming had not yet become a trade? but was an occupation by which men procured sub- sistence, the slightest signs of increased prosperity acted directly in encouraging an increase of population, while the pressure of distress could not force on any improvement; it only rendered labourers more miserable than before. The wretchedness in England was so great, that there was little inclination to attend to the condition of the Irish; though in 1822, and in 1831, when the potato crop was short, some public liberality was shown on their behalf. These years, however, were but a premonitory symptom of the frightful disaster of 1845 and 1846, when the state of Ireland was forced upon public attention, by the outbreak of the potato disease; the late crop of potatoes, on which the people depended for food, was entirely lost. As they had obtained with fair prices for other produce, they might have got through Fla the disaster with comparatively little help, and the Govern- e¢/amine. ment contented itself with purchasing £100,000 worth of Indian corn, and forming depdts where relief was administered. In the following year, however, the destruction caused by the disease was complete ; though both public and private charity were largely exerted, the shameful admission remains that very large numbers died through starvation, or from those fevers which are directly due to insufficient nourishment, Public works were opened, and there was very wide-spread sympathy shown to the Irish sufferers from all parte of the world. i Martin, 87. Sig 1 On this change in England, see pp. 109, 545.

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