Arthur Edward Kennedy Quotes
… there were days … when I came back from some scene of eviction so maddened by the sights of hunger and misery I had seen in the day’s work that I felt disposed to take the gun from behind my door and shoot the first landlord I met.
The Irish landlords were a craven and greedy lot. See {639225}.
Arthur Edward Kennedy, 1810-1883, British Army Officer, Inspector for the Poor Law Commission in Ireland, Quoted in Jonathan Bardon, A History of Ireland
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There was much unrest caused by many evictions of poor tenant by landlords who were not recognizing any of their “duties”. This problem and the degree of government regulatory and legislative involvement have been on the political agenda for eons and continue to this day. The duties tend to change with times and places; the rights that the property owners assert seem to be constant and uniform.
Executed by the English for his part in the Easter Uprising. Most revolutionaries seeking independence become so focused on their revolution that they begin to believe that independence will solve all problems. Connelly was one of the more sophisticated ones who realized that many of the economic problems of Ireland had nothing to do with independence or the lack thereof.
As the son of a former president he fought in both WWI and WWII and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. See {593105} for another quotation on the poverty of Puerto Rico.
In Scotland, large land owners who controlled most of the land discovered that they could earn more money from putting sheep on their lands than they could from rents charged to tenant farmers and simply evicted most of the tenant farmers who had no where to go. New Zealand, as a result of McKensie’s efforts passed laws guaranteeing 999 year leases at reasonable prices to any who wanted to farm.
For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
Reflection on the Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1850
- Born: April 5, 1809
- Died: June 3, 1883
- Nationality:
- Profession: Traditional Chinese
Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy GCMG CB was a British colonial administrator who served as governor of a number of British colonies, namely Sierra Leone, Western Australia, Vancouver Island, Hong Kong and Queensland.
