IRISH POVERTY.
A CLERGYMAN'S THEORY. London, Scptejnbor 20. Rev. John Flalley, Catholic curate, Clare Island, testifying before a Royal Commission on the congestion, attributed the poverty in Connemara to the credit system, placing the peasantry atthe mercy of the loc.il storekeeper or gombeen man, enabling the latter largely to control elections in the County District Councils and the Magistracy.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 September 1907, Page 2
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59IRISH POVERTY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 23 September 1907, Page 2
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