Emigrants Leave Ireland, Engraved by Henry Doyle in 1868
Doyle's engraving for Mary Frances Cusack's Illustrated History of Ireland, published in 1868. A family kneels for a blessing at the quayside; the emigration it shows had by then removed more people from Ireland than the famine killed.
The relationship was never a single quarrel. It ran through conquest and plantation, penal laws, an incorporating union that dissolved the Dublin parliament, a famine in which a net exporter of food lost a quarter of its population to death and departure, and a diaspora that then funded the movements the British government spent the rest of the century trying to suppress. Doyle drew this for a nationalist history, which is part of what it records. See the battered relationship between the English and the Irish.
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