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AND BELFAST POST

... nineteenth century became successively the demands for Catholic emancipation. Parliamentary reform, and the repeal of the Corn Laws. ...

Published: Monday 11 August 1930
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 146 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AMERICA'S INDUSTRIAL CHANGE

... America to-day gigantic scale in much the same general position England occupied during the vears leading to the repeal the corn laws. Just as England during those years bad gradually moved from agricultural to a manufacturing basis, so America has now passed ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1927
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE FLIGHT FROM IRELAND. TO Tn BntTOR OF TU KOBTMTmiC WUO

... and Agriculture. When the repeal the corn laws came before the House feeia ami erpeeiallv Iri.h I'eer- with the utmost, energy again.! that measure and when the House of Commons pja-ad the repeal of the corn laws w.lh the help of venal Irish politicians ...

Published: Tuesday 06 June 1911
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1216 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

ALL-ROUND REVIVAL

... ALL-ROUND REVIVAL. Lord Craigavon said that the fiscal change, comparable in effect only to the repeal the Corn Laws a hundred years ago, must mean an all-round revival of the home trade and corresponding addition to our strength in every market of the ...

Published: Thursday 25 February 1932
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 138 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

THE POPULATION QUESTION

... after tl»e Act of Union, the population of Ireland was 5.395.456; in 1845. prior to the potato famine and the rejical the Corn Laws, was 8.295.061. That is. in forty years under the Union, the population increased nearly force million. But. of louree, since ...

Published: Thursday 08 May 1913
Newspaper: Belfast Weekly News
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 158 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

HISTORY

... is unable to feed herself, and has to import food froza abroad 5. Poo What wax the chief change made hy the Law of 4.-Wh•t were the Corn Laws? were bey repealed? 7.—What are Trade Unions? Why were they _ unpopular when they were first started? B.—Evntsin ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1917
Newspaper: Belfast Weekly Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 157 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

SUCCESS OF TARIFFS

... United Kingdom was the first Government have made really aerious effort to help the farming community since the repeal of the Corn Laws. While he was not completely satisfied with what had been done he thought the farmers had not been unfairly treated, and ...

Published: Wednesday 18 October 1933
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 173 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A Sidelight

... we must remember is that when Free Trade came with the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846. Ireland was. then, made the victim of the change. . Speaking of the Dill to repeal the Corn Laws, John Mitchel states: The Premier (Sir Robert Peel) proposed to cheapen ...

Published: Saturday 27 February 1932
Newspaper: Irish Weekly and Ulster Examiner
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 529 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

lAIIIED TO ACTRESS

... had the satisfaction of gaining a lieutenancy. lie i. the great-grandson of the Inniim, Sir Robert Peel who abolished the Corn Laws. and it was his father whose dispersal the celc prated Peel pictures caused such a sensa , tion in the art world in MO. when ...

Published: Wednesday 23 March 1927
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 180 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

A CENTURY AGO

... to state that Irish com is to have preference over foreign corn of fifteen shillings per quarter in the British market, that 13s advance on the present rate of import. The existing Corn Laws, they affect Ireland, are to oootinne as they are. THE AMERICAN ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1904
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 178 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

MAUI I NEIL

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Published: Monday 20 August 1928
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 148 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

WITH THE MAN OF THE SOIL

... had a surplus for tation, the increase of production ke with the increase of population, iusomu antil the repeal of the corn laws we re practically independent of foreign s Cobden changed our policy, and at his | agriculture was ruthlesslv sacrificed ...

Published: Friday 23 November 1906
Newspaper: Northern Whig
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 12 | Tags: none