This place was raised in The Illustrated London News on 13 February 1847: "There was no legislation it would not pass at their ask for, and no abuse it would not protect for them." On 24 March, The Times claimed that Britain had permitted in Ireland "a mass of poverty, disaffection, and degradation without having a parallel in the globe. It authorized proprietors to suck the really daily life-blood of that wretched race". Stewart, Emily.