Archiving Irish Diversity Stuff (AIDS)
“When the Irish people are told that the great obstacle to Irish prosperity is their love for politics and agitation, they should keep in mind that whatever rights our people possess were won by agitation.” - William Martin Murphy
Resistance works. In 1834, an MP observed that
'But for the salutary dread of the Whiteboy Association, ejectment would desolate Ireland and decimate her population.... Yes, the White-boy system is the only check on the ejectment system, and weighing one against the other, horror against horror, and crime against crime, it is perhaps the lesser evil of the two.'
However once starvation set in the 1840s, the resistance was crushed.
Redcliffe Salaman, The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge, 1949).
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'But for the salutary dread of the Whiteboy Association, ejectment would desolate Ireland and decimate her population.... Yes, the White-boy system is the only check on the ejectment system, and weighing one against the other, horror against horror, and crime against crime, it is perhaps the lesser evil of the two.'
However once starvation set in the 1840s, the resistance was crushed.
Redcliffe Salaman, The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge, 1949).
Turbarius