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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 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.\\ | {{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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