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| Opening the gate, or 'coming events cast their shadows before', December 1845 |
| Justice to Ireland, April 1846 |
| Height of Impudence, December 1846 |
| The bad boy who didn't care, May 1846 |
| Union is Strength, October 1846 |
| Punch and Paddy, December 1846 |
| O'Connell stumped out, February 1847 |
| Little Jack Horner, July 1847 |
 Sir Robert Peel stated at a Cabinet Council that the instructions to be issued to the Irish Famine Commissioners were inconsistent with a determination to maintain the present Corn Laws. |
 Owing to the disturbed state of Ireland - the potato crop having failed throughout the country - an Irish Arms (or Coercion) Bill was brought in by the Peel ministry. |
 The state of Ireland become more unsatisfactory towards the end of 1846, and more than one agrarian murder was committed. |
 Mr. W. Smith O'Brien was committed to the custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms for not obeying an order of the House to attend a committee. |
 Terrible distress prevailed in Ireland owing to the failure of the potato crops. |
 The distress in Ireland had made the peasant much too familiar with the blunderbuss and other firearms. |
 The Government, by giving employment to a large number of people in Ireland, by voting money to complete Irish railways, and by other measures of relief, was thought to have greatly damaged the influence of Mr. O'Connell. |
 One of the most important Measures passed for the mitigation of the sufferings of the Irish people by Lord John Russell's Ministry during its first Session, was the Irish loan. |
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