Irish Poor
Anon
Genre: | Extract, Miscellaneous |
Publications extracted: | Edinburgh Review |
Subjects: | Population, Steamships, Class |
Discusses the deleterious effects on the British poor of Irish immigration. Observes: 'The facilities of conveyance afforded by steam-navigation are such, that the merest beggar, provided he can command a sixpence, may get himself carried from Ireland to England'. Considers that 'what may almost without a metaphor be termed floating bridges, have been established between Belfast and Glasgow, and Dublin and Liverpool'. |
© Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Project, Universities of Leeds and Sheffield, 2005 - 2020
Printed from Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical: An Electronic Index, v. 4.0, The Digital Humanities Institute <http://www.sciper.org> [accessed ]