What the Famine Couldn’t Do…

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By two, Wednesday afternoon, the terrible work had been accomplished and a deathly silence descended over the whole area. The Derryveagh District had been cleared of people and Adair had accomplished what the ravages of the Great Famine had failed to do.

Liam Dolan
Land War and Evictions in Derryveagh
1980