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World Hunger in Primary and Secondary Documents

World Hunger in Primary and Secondary Documents. Mr. Tomasso 3.12.12. Questions to ask….. . Primary or Secondary? Why? Who (‘s viewpoint)? What? Where? When? Why?. The Wexford Times (Ireland). "Famine" and Its Remedy. December 16, 1846.

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World Hunger in Primary and Secondary Documents

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  1. World Hunger in Primary and Secondary Documents Mr. Tomasso 3.12.12

  2. Questions to ask….. • Primary or Secondary? Why? • Who (‘s viewpoint)? • What? • Where? • When? • Why?

  3. The Wexford Times (Ireland) "Famine" and Its Remedy. December 16, 1846. "Our accounts from the northern parts of this country are most deplorable. What the poor people earn on the public works is barely sufficient to support them. All their earnings go for food; and the consequence is, that they have nothing left to procure clothing. Since the extreme cold set in, sickness and death have accordingly followed in its train. Inflammation of the lungs, fevers, and other maladies, resulting from excessive privation, have been bearing away their victims. Many have died in the course of last week; and the illness in every case was traceable to the want of clothing and firing, if not of sufficient food."

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  5. The Times of London LONDON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1848. Another winter is approaching, and Ireland again appeals to the sympathies and solicitudes of her provident and more fortunate sister. The rebellion has been suppressed, but not the famine. Thoughout extensive districts there is as great a failure of the potato as there was two years since, and with a return of the cause we must expect a renewal of of the disastrous consequences… For many weeks, indeed, considerable portions of the western population, as, for example, on the wild coast of ill-fated Connemara, have been supported by regular doles of oatmeal-porridge, supplied from the union funds. If such is the case now, and has continued so even in the midst of the harvest and of the season for the fishery, what will it be when the earth is locked by frost, or wrapped in snow, and when the ocean denies alike to the fisherman and the emigrant its wonted hospitality?

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