The Irish scientist John Ball (1818-89), active in the study of
natural history and glaciology, held fellowships of both the Royal
Society and the Linnean Society. When the Irish Potato Famine took
hold, Ball returned from European travel and study intent on
helping his countrymen. In 1846 he became an assistant poor law
commissioner, and witnessed the deepening crisis at first hand. The
first edition of this pamphlet was published in 1847. Reissued here
is the second edition of 1849, the year when Ball assumed the more
senior office of second poor law commissioner. He uses the pamphlet
to argue passionately for the urgent revision of government
legislation relating to poor relief, the public works programme,
land improvement, labour and taxation, which he felt had
exacerbated matters. He also believed the famine had been forgotten
by the English and calls for them to show more sympathy towards the
Irish.
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