Irish History Guide - Early History to Present Day Ireland

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English peasants

Above:Picture of English peasants

laborate calculations were made of the rate at which the colony might be expected to increase, but these were all falsified by the event. It was found easy enough to induce a sufficient number of enterprising gentlemen to take up the lands, but a supply of English peasants willing to exchange the peace and security of their own country for the unknown perils of a ” barbarous ” land was not so easily forthcoming.

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