“Usury I put down, as the great pivot of all their (the Irish people’s) disasters – the main and primary spring that sets on motion the whole machinery of Ireland’s calamities.” IN OCTOBER 1819, a priest, summoned to the bedside of a dying parishioner in Ross Carberry, Cork, refused him the last Sacraments unless the …
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