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With well-meaning but blind violence it imported into Ireland after the famine the English idea of landed property and contract.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “With well-meaning but blind violence it imported into Ireland after the famine the English idea of landed property and…”
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Morley argues that the English concept of property was forcefully imposed on Ireland post-famine.
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