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| {{ https://theninthwavenovel.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/dublin-3.jpg?480x640|}} //Photo: Section of Dublin memorial to victims of potato famine, 1845-52. Around one million people died while landowners continued to export food. Neither church nor state provided much help. TLM-P's grandfather, the last of his direct family to live in Ireland, died just after the famine, in 1854.//\\ | {{ https://theninthwavenovel.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/dublin-3.jpg?300|}} //Photo: Section of Dublin memorial to victims of potato famine, 1845-52. Around one million people died while landowners continued to export food. Neither church nor state provided much help. TLM-P's grandfather, the last of his direct family to live in Ireland, died just after the famine, in 1854.//\\ |
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| A proportionately more devastating famine was [[wp>Irish_Famine_(1740–41)|'the great frost' of 1740-41]]. A sickening estimate is that nearly 40% of the 2.4 million people in Ireland died as a result of that climate change, again while little help was extended.\\ | A proportionately more devastating famine was [[wp>Irish_Famine_(1740–41)|'the great frost' of 1740-41]]. A sickening estimate is that nearly 40% of the 2.4 million people in Ireland died as a result of that climate change, again while little help was extended.\\ |
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| This common Orange toast being as new to most of the passengers as it was to myself, caused much astonishment among us, and out of pure mischief I stood up and cried out: "Ladies and Gentlemen fill your glasses a bumper. Mr Goodwin! No heel taps! To the greatest man Ireland ever produced." Mr Goodwin drank it with the rest and then asked whom I meant. When I told him Daniel O'Connell, he dashed his glass to the ground and ever after looked upon me as a Roman, a Jesuit and an enemy.////'((TLM-P, Draft memoirs of a Voyage from London to Sydney on the 'Roxburgh Castle', MLMSS6576, copied from Praed papers, Oxley Library.))\\ | This common Orange toast being as new to most of the passengers as it was to myself, caused much astonishment among us, and out of pure mischief I stood up and cried out: "Ladies and Gentlemen fill your glasses a bumper. Mr Goodwin! No heel taps! To the greatest man Ireland ever produced." Mr Goodwin drank it with the rest and then asked whom I meant. When I told him Daniel O'Connell, he dashed his glass to the ground and ever after looked upon me as a Roman, a Jesuit and an enemy.////'((TLM-P, Draft memoirs of a Voyage from London to Sydney on the 'Roxburgh Castle', MLMSS6576, copied from Praed papers, QJO.))\\ |
| {{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg/220px-St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg}}//Statue of [[wp>Daniel_O'Connell|Daniel O'Connell]], known as The Liberator of Ireland, outside St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.\\ | {{https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg/220px-St_Patricks_Cathedral_%28Daniel_O%27Connell_Statue%29.jpg}}//Statue of the object of TLM-P's toast, [[wp>Daniel_O'Connell|Daniel O'Connell]], known as The Liberator of Ireland, outside St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.\\ |
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| TLM-P's daughter [[rosa_praed|Rosa]] Praed also worked for Irish home rule at a time when that was a radical act.\\ | TLM-P's daughter [[rosa_praed|Rosa]] Praed also worked for Irish home rule at a time when that was a radical act.\\ |
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| Another influence of Ireland on the family was less commendable. The attitude of the Anglo-Irish ruling class was all too easily transferred to the colony of Australia, were similar attitudes prevailed towards the indigenous inhabitants and their claims to land (see [[Rural Life and Tragedy]]). | Another influence of Ireland on the family was less commendable. The attitude of the Anglo-Irish ruling class was all too easily transferred to the colony of Australia, were similar attitudes prevailed towards the indigenous inhabitants and their claims to full humanity and their ancestral land (see [[Rural Life and Tragedy]]). |
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