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| Picture No | 10220176 |
| Date | 1848 |
| Description | Ejectment of Irish Tenantry |
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Eviction of an Irish peasant farmer and his family during the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840's. As landlords sought to rid their estates of pauperized farmers and labourers, as many as 500,000 people were evicted in the years from 1846 to 1854.
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| Source | Engraving by Ebenezer Landells in The Illustrated London News, 16 December 1848, page 380 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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