1. the irish question
... British perceptions of the Irish during the 1840's was one of inferiority, they believed that forcing the Irish to fend for themselves in time of dearth appeared a useful and necessary moral lesson for a people with such potential for improvement. Frustration at the apparently unwillingness of the Irish to improve' as a result of the famine led an increasingly large portion of the English public to believe that the Irish were an irredeemably inferior race for whom no ... amount of tutoring would do any ... ...
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