Thus, there is this remarkable characteristic of the agrarian anarchy of Ireland which marks it out from all similar conditions of other countries: it is a war of the poor against the poor.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage summarizes a unique characteristic of agrarian violence in Ireland.
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