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Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England! / As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration

Chapter 3: FOOTNOTES:
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A first-person pamphlet of travel-soaked observations and street scenes that documents the destitution of rural and urban poor, with particular attention to the Irish peasantry. The narrator confronts common prejudices, records domestic misery and mourning rituals, and contrasts affluent comforts with working-class privation. Personal anecdotes and local investigation underpin practical and moral appeals for relief, social measures, and a program of regeneration to improve living conditions.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Short tobacco-pipe.

[2] See Comparative Statement of the Crimes of England and Ireland, in "The Appeal for the Irish Peasantry."

Transcriber's Note: Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Dialect spellings have been retained. Punctuation has been standardised. The following significant amendments have been made to the original text:

Page 17, added 'that' to 'When this occurs ... it is impossible that the poor labourer can ...'

Page 39, removed additional 'you' from 'And if you ask from your heart, you you will succeed.'