The Irish Peasantry.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5100, 22 February 1888, Page 4

The Irish Peasantry.

A correspondent < t li.o Manchester Guardian, who is visiting Ireland, writes aa to tho condition of the Irish peassntry : — I declino to pity tho Irish peasant for his mode of life. Ho ia infinitely better off .than a worlcinu man who lives in the pooror p.irts of L-Midon or Manchester. Hia hovel may contain much matter in tho wrong place, but its dirtiness i 3 not offensive. Though peculiarly, and, indeed, ridiculously sensitive to such things, I have never yet detected a disacrroeable smell in tho worst Irish hovol. That frowsy and sickening odour of humanity which everybody who has visited the poor in English towns knows so well is altogether absent. Moreover, though I know not what tho total amount of their ablutions may be, tho faces at least of the children nre far cleaner than in England. Again, tho diet, consisting of Indian meal, potatoes and milk, though noh luxurious, i 3 wholesomo and satisfying, and the people, being accustomed to it, crave for nothing bettor. And then let any Lancashire man conceive, if he can, what an incalculable) blessing the Irish peasant enjoya in an absolutely pure atmosphere — no coal smoke, no gas fumes, and no fogs. Nokhing can be more exquisite than the air in tho South and West of Iroland.

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