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There was great distress — as there generally is in Ireland — and exceptional efforts had been made, both by the Government and the people of this country, to meet it. A benevolent fund had been raised, chiefly through the influence of the Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Lord-Lieutenant, and a Distress Relief Act had been carried by Par- liament to empower the appHcation of three-quarters of a million of the Irish Church Surplus Fund, and some good had unquestionably been done by the pubHc ...and private effort thus made to reheve distress ; but it was clear, from the results of the elections, and from the speeches of the popular Irish leaders, that it was not to measures of this kind that the people looked for permanent relief. The unusual distress of 1879 had intensified and aggravated the chronic disaffection, and sixty members had been returned to Parliament who were pledged to do their utmost to put an end to English rule in Ireland by securing Home Rule. Flushed with the brilliant success they had achieved, STATE OF IRELAND 127 the Liberal party entered upon office confident that a career of prosperity lay before them.
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