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You see '''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunseverick_Harbour_-_geograph.org.uk_-_24159.jpg Dunseverick Harbour]''' in the image above. Many local people began their long emigration trail during the 1800s, being rowed out to catch a passing schooner bound for Glasgow or Londonderry where they would embark on one of the many emigrant ships to Australia, New Zealand or the Americas. | You see '''[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunseverick_Harbour_-_geograph.org.uk_-_24159.jpg Dunseverick Harbour]''' in the image above. Many local people began their long emigration trail during the 1800s, being rowed out to catch a passing schooner bound for Glasgow or Londonderry where they would embark on one of the many emigrant ships to Australia, New Zealand or the Americas. | ||
If the 17th and 18th century Penal laws of the Royal Crown leveled at mostly Catholic society could be summed up in one word, the word "brutalisation" just might be the more accurate one to employ for those times. From at least as early as the year 1603, laws then enacted, seemed to focus on their society perhaps as much as any non-parochial one in the whole realm. For example, imagine a family homestead which prior to this time was once held by the family for several centuries, but was suddenly ripped | If the 17th and 18th century Penal laws of the Royal Crown leveled at mostly Catholic society could be summed up in one word, the word "brutalisation" just might be the more accurate one to employ for those times. From at least as early as the year 1603, laws then enacted, seemed to focus on their society perhaps as much as any non-parochial one in the whole realm. For example, imagine a family homestead which prior to this time was once held by the family for several centuries, but was suddenly ripped from beneath their feet and which forced many onto the 'street' in abject poverty practically overnight. | ||
These and other intolerable conditions in Ireland forced Irish (especially Catholic) emigrants to leave the country. | These and other intolerable conditions in Ireland forced Irish (especially Catholic) emigrants to leave the country. | ||
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=== Social and Religious === | === Social and Religious === | ||
[[Image:Ireland Church Tower.jpg|thumb|right|290x230px | [[Image:Ireland Church Tower.jpg|thumb|right|290x230px]] | ||
A culture of social and religious persecution by the local Protestant-led and British Crown government was manifest in— | A culture of social and religious persecution by the local Protestant-led and British Crown government was manifest in— | ||