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| ‘No heroes now’?
|  ‘No heroes now’?
As a writer of history textbooks, Elma Collins has had a profound, if unsung, influence on the generation of students who have passed through the Southern school system over the past thirty years. She currently teaches at the Institute of Education, Dublin and tutors at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. She is an active member of the History Teachers Association of Ireland and has edited its journal Stair since 1978. Gráinne Henry spoke to her recently.
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| Food Exports from Ireland 1846-47
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Food Exports from Ireland 1846-47
‘Let us explain to you Irish farmer, Irish landlord, Irish labourer, Irish tradesman, what became of your harvest, which is your only wealth. Early in the winter it was conveyed, by the thousand shiploads, to England, paying freight; it was stored in English stores, paying storage; it was passed from hand to hand among corn-speculators, paying at every remove, commission, merchants’ profits, forwarding charges and so forth: some of it was bought by French or Belgian buyers and carried to Havre, to Antwerp, to Bordeaux, meeting on the way other corn, from Odessa or Hamburg or New York, which was also earning for merchants, ship-owners and other harpies, immense profits, exorbitant freights, huge commissions...In other words, you sent away a quarter of wheat at 50 shillings, and got it back, if you got it at all, at 80 shillings.’
The Nation, Dublin, 12 June 1847. Read More >> |
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