March 1848 - Ireland - Lord Palmerston's pronouncement

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Lots more too in this horrifying timeline

On the 31st, Lord Palmerston said that 'it is useless to disguise the truth, that any great improvement in the social system of Ireland must be founded upon an extensive change in the present state of agrarian occupation, and that this change necessarily implies a long, continued and systematic ejectment of smallholders and of squatting cottiers'.
http://www.irishhistorian.com/IrishFamineTimeline.html

March 1848 - Ireland - Lord Palmerston's pronouncement
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