Ireland 1845-52 , P. Gallagher "People all over Ireland were now, in the late spring of 1847, committing petty crimes in the hope of being sent to prison, where there would at least be food. At Tralee jail, Dr. Crumpe, medical officer, witnessed these…  | Stair na hÉireann May 2 | Ireland 1845-52 , P. Gallagher "People all over Ireland were now, in the late spring of 1847, committing petty crimes in the hope of being sent to prison, where there would at least be food. At Tralee jail, Dr. Crumpe, medical officer, witnessed these crowds of petty thieves, some sick, some healthy, jammed into jail, where they were fed and then, just as quickly, carried off by fever. 'So morbidly fitted and laden with noxious miasma, notwithstanding constant fumigation with chloride of lime that on the door being opened, I was uniformly seized with the most violent retching'." Taken from The Truth Behind The Irish Famine, 72 images, 472 eyewitness quotes http://www.jerrymulvihill.com | | | |
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