g the Winter of 1847--State of
Clare--Capt. Wynne's Letter--Patience of the suffering people--Ennis
without food--The North--Belfast--great distress in it--Letter to
the _Northern Whig_--Cork--rush of country people to
it--Soup--Society of Friends--The sliding coffin--Deaths in the
streets--One hundred bodies buried together!--More than one death
every hour in the Workhouse--Limerick--Experience of a Priest of St.
John's--Dublin--Dysentery more fatal than
cholera--Meetings--"General Central Relief Committee for all
Ireland"--Committee of the Society of Friends--The British
Association for the Relief of Extreme Distress in Ireland and
Scotland--The Government--Famine not a money question--so the
Government pretended--Activity of other countries in procuring
food--Attack on Divine Providence--Wm. Bennett's opinion.--Money
wages not to be had from farmers--Was it a money or food
question?--The Navigation laws--Freights doubled--The Prime
minister's exposition--Free Trade in theory--protection in
practice--The Treasury says it cannot find meal--President Polk's
message to Congress--America burthened with surplus corn--could
supply the world--Was it a money question or a food
question?--Living on field roots--Churchyards enlarged--Three
coffins on a donkey cart--Roscommon--no coffins--600 people in
typhus fever in one Workhouse?--Heroic virtue--The
Rosary--Sligo--forty bodies waiting for inquests!--Owen
Mulrooney--eating asses' flesh--Mayo--Meeting of the county--Mr.
Garvey's statement--Mr. Tuke's experiences--Inquests given
up--W.G.'s letters on Mayo--Effect of Famine on the relations of
landlord and tenant--Extermination of the smaller
tenantry--Evictions--Opinion of an eyewitness--A mother takes leave
of her children--Ass and horse flesh--something more dreadful!
(_Note_)--The weather--its effects--Count Strezelecki--Mr. Egan's
account of Westport--Anointing the people in the streets!--The
Society of Friends--Accounts given by their agents--Patience of the
people--Newspaper accounts not
exaggerated--Donegal--Dunfanaghy--Glenties--Resident proprietors
good and charitable--Skull--From Cape Clear to Skull--The
Capers--Graveyard of Skull--Ballydehob--The hinged coffin--Famine
hardens the heart. Rev. Traill Hall--Captain Caffin's
narrative--Soup-kitchens--Officials concealing