The Complete Idiot's Guide to Irish History and Culture by Sonja Massie

Author:Sonja Massie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.

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Speak Plain Irish

The Whigs were the other major political party in 18th and 19th century England. Now known as the Liberal Party, Whigs championed reform and parliamentary rights.

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Basically, Trevelyan and many others in powerful positions at that time believed the famine was the result of a combination of two things:

The moral bankruptcy of the Irish

Their natural, biological inferiority

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Gift of Gab

“The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse, and turbulent character of the people.”

—Sir Charles Trevelyan

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