Alphabetical Index

Abbeystrowry, Churchyard of,
227.
Aberdeen, Lord,
93.
Absenteeism,
39;
Mr. M'Cullagh's views on,
40;
tax on,
107,
249
327
395
396;
Note A,
524.
Achill,
32;
deputations from,
222 (note).
Act to allow Catholics to testify allegiance,
43.
Acts to employ Irish people,
117,
168.
Adair, Mr. A. Shafto (now Lord Waveney),
418.
Agriculture,
11.
Aldridge, Dr., on Soyer's soups,
432.
Alms, a poor man's,
120 (note).
American Ships,
513.
Analysis of 500 letters,
67.
Anti-Corn Law League,
78.
Arranmore,
397.
Assemblies of the people,
119.
Assflesh used as food,
390 (note),
391.
Assizes of 1741,
19.
Association, British,
509.
Bailiff, or Driver, reply of,
120,
263 (note).
Ballinrobe,
454.
Ballydehob,
401,
408.
Banks, Sir Joseph,
4,
5,
6.
Bantry,
412,
416,
417.
workhouse of,
417,
418.
Baker, John Wynne,
28,
29.
Barry, Rev. Mr.,
413,
415,
416.
Baronies, Loans to,
217.
Barren Works an error,
244.
Batatas, Spanish name for potato,
3.
Beaufort, Dr.,
44.
Belfast,
367,
368.
Bentinck, Lord George,
104,
116,
301,
333 (note),
335,
336.
337,
338,
339,
340,
341,
342,
343,
344,
346,
347,
355,
356;
on threat of resignation,
357;
division on his Railway bill,
359,
361,
362.
Berkeley, Right Rev. Dr.,
23.
Bernard, Lord,
262.
Bessborough, Earl of,
132,
246.
Bianconi, Mr.,
355,
356.
Bingham, Lord,
109.
Bishop, Commissary,
407.
Blake, Right Rev. Dr.,
119.
Blight, first appearance of,
48,
49;
of 1850,
50,
51;
of 1845,
51,
52;
loss by, in 1845,
63;
made a party question,
71;
Blight of 1846,
151,
152,
153;
Supposed cause of,
154,
155.
Board of Health, Report of,
481.
Board of Works,
158,
221;
delays of,
257,
261,
338,
339.
Bogs, reclamation of,
43.
Boulter, Primate,
13,
35,
39.
Boundaries, Change of,
245.
Boyle,
394.
Bread riot in Dublin,
18.
Bristol barrel, Capacity of,
29.
Brougham, Lord,
101 (note),
295,
296.
Buckland, Mr.,
2.
Buller, Mr.,
88.
Burgoyne, Sir John,
406.
Burke, Study,
223 (note.).
Butler, Lord James,
510.
Byrne, James (his case),
386.
Cabinet Councils,
91,
94,
95,
97.
Caffin, Commander, of the Scourge,
402;
his letter,
403.
Caheragh,
233.
Cape Clear,
399.
Cashel,
455.
Castle Oliver,
29 (bis).
Catholics, The
45.
Celts, The, cultivate the potato,
11,
36,
37.
Census, The, of 1821,
33.
Chancellor of the Exchequer,
350,
360.
Charters to Sir W. Raleigh,
4.
Children, clothing and rations to,
511.
Civil bill ejectments,
113.
Clare Abbey, State of,
207.
Clare, County,
268,
365,
366.
Clare, Lord,
36.
Clarendon Street Chapel, inscription on,
45 (note).
Clergy, Letters of, from various localities,
64.
Clinton, Lord R.,
510.
Cloncurry, Lord, Letter of,
160.
Clusius,
5,
6.
Cobden, Mr. R.,
79,
80,
116,
122.
Coercion Bill,
109,
112,
116.
Coffins,
257,
266,
267,
401;
Hinged,
418.
Commercial restraints,
37.
Commissariat Relief Office,
221,
223.
Commissioners of Health,
474,
475.
Committee, General,
509;
General Central Relief,
511.
Committees, Local,
209.
Committee, London Tavern,
31.
Conduct of the people,
395,
402,
414,
450,
457,
460,
473.
Cooper, Mr., Markree Castle,
156.
Coracles (fishing boats),
396,
397.
Cork,
22,
368,
410,
411,
479.
Corn in the haggards,
252.
Corn Laws,
76,
81,
82,
105;
Repeal of,
116.
Corporation of Dublin,
53,
70.
Corporation of London, Address of, to the Queen,
71.
Cox, Sir Richard,
23.
Crowbar Brigade,
47.
Crowley, Dr.,
408.
Cummins, Mr. J.P.,
273.
Curl. Disease in the potato,
30 (note).
Days' work system,
209.
Dead, The, among the living,
272.
Deaths,
22,
107,
266,
383,
390,
479.
Debate, two days', in Conciliation Hall,
139 et seq.;
its character,
146 (note).
De Bry,
5.
Depôts of Meal,
225,
226.
Deputation to Lord Lieutenant,
55.
Desmonds, The,
6,
13.
Devon, Lord, Report of,
115;
on Public Works,
160,
299,
485.
Dickens, Charles, on the Irish Famine,
516,
517.
Dinner given away,
414.
"Disgrace to Christianity,"
113.
Dismissals from Public Works,
424,
448,
451,
452,
454,
455.
Distress said to be exaggerated,
201,
214.
D'Israeli, Mr. B., on Sir Robert Peel,
81 (note),
110,
111,
302 (note).
Dobree, Commissary-General,
224.
Donegal,
395.
Donovan (or O'Donovan), Dr.,
233,
234,
274,
275;
Post mortem examination by,
259;
another,
265,
267,
269,
271.
Downing, M'Carthy, M.P.,
236,
267,
522.
Dowse, Baron,
522.
Doyle, Rev. Mr.,
118.
Drake, Sir Francis,
3.
Driscoll, Mary,
263,
264.
Drought, Great,
18.
Duffy, C.G. (Sir),
142.
Dublin, Bay of,
24,
480.
Dunfanaghy,
396.
Dungarvan,
229;
Riot at,
231.
Dungloe,
397,
398.
Dysentery,
478.
Edward's Life of Raleigh,
4 (note).
Egan, Mr.,
393.
Election, General, of 1826,
45.
Elective Franchise,
45.
Elections, policy of Repealers on,
139.
Electoral Divisions,
427.
Eleven Measures, The,
136,
151.
Emigration,
292,
293,
481;
to Peterborough,
483,
484 (note),
485,
486,
487,
488;
Mr. Godley's scheme,
488,
489,
490;
to be a Catholic Emigration,
490,
492,
494,
495;
Deaths among emigrants on voyage,
496,
497;
to United States,
498;
Mortality,
499;
Money sent home
503,
504.
Employees on Public Works,
219.
England,
35.
English Colony,
37.
Enniskillen,
268.
Ennistymon,
212.
Epidemics,
22.
Evelyn, Author of the "Sylva,"
2.
Evening Mail, Dublin,
72,
74.
Evening Packet, Dublin,
73.
Evictions,
265,
353,
354,
388,
389.
Expenditure, Total, on Famine,
507,
508;
Weekly,
219.
Fagan, Mr. J., M.P., on reclamation,
439,
440.
Famine, The,
7,
13,
17,
24,
30,
36,
118,
119,
196,
197,
224,
442,
507;
Monuments to,
24.
Farms, Canting of,
9.
Fast, General,
17.
Fermoy,
228.
Fetherstone, Mr.,
444,
445.
Fever,
409,
473,
475,
476,
477,
478,
481;
Average weekly cost of patients,
481,
482.
Finance Committees,
420.
Fingal, Lord, on the character of O'Connell,
465.
Fitzgerald Mr. (a landlord),
261,
262.
Fleming, Michael,
232.
Food depôts,
121 (note),
170,
223,
227.
Food rioters, Shooting down of,
20.
Forbes, Dr., on Conversions,
519.
Forde, William,
53.
Forster, Mr.,
391,
395.
Forty-shilling Freeholders,
45,
46,
47 (note).
Foster, Mr. Campbell (Times' Commissioner),
59,
60,
61.
Frost of 1739-40,
14;
its effects,
15,
16.
Funerals,
272,
303.
Galway,
22.
Galwey, Mr., J.P.,
233,
235.
Gangs of Robbers,
19.
Gerarde,
5.
Gentlemen Undertakers,
6.
Gibson, Rev. C.B.,
163.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey,
4.
Gladstone, W.E.,
98.
Glenquin Sessions,
204.
Glenties,
397,
398.
Government, Action of,
65,
309,
328,
329,
345.
Government Grants,
33.
Graham, Sir James,
83,
84,
88,
89,
93,
104,
105.
Grants,
118.
Grattan, H.,
345.
Gray, Sir John, M.P.,
349.
Grazing,
9,
11,
12,
13,
21.
Gregory, William Henry,
330.
Grey, Lord,
97.
Griffin, John; value of his furniture,
164.
Griffith, Sir R.,
444.
"Groans of Ireland,"
23.
Gweedore,
397.
Haliday Pamphlets,
8,
9.
Hall, Rev. Traill,
402,
404,
407.
Hamilton. Lord Claude,
107.
Harding, Lord,
117.
Harvests, many bad,
13.
Hawkins, Sir John,
3.
Hegarty, Jeremiah (his cross),
263.
Hennessy, W.M., assault on,
206.
Herbert, Sidney,
80,
93.
Heriot, Thomas,
4.
Hewetson, Commissary-General,
171.
Heytesbury, Lord,
75,
85,
88,
90.
Higgins, M.J., "Jacob Omnium,"
510.
Hoare, Dean,
73.
Hooker,
7.
Hottentot, State of the,
165.
House of Lords,
109.
Howley, Mr.,
231.
Hudson, Mr. G.,
338,
351,
352.
Humphrey, Alderman,
332.
Illustrated London News,
275 (note).
Indian Corn, price of,
171,
303;
Cargo of,
160.
Innishowen West,
268.
Ireland,
159,
177,
198,
199,
251,
437,
443.
Irish Manufacture,
37,
38.
Irish Party,
347,
349.
Jacquet, M., on Soyer's soup,
430.
"Jamestown," The,
513.
Jones, Lieut.-Colonel,
201,
202,
312.
Judges, Partisan,
114.
Kane, Sir Robert,
52.
Kells and Fore, Relief Committee of,
181;
reasons for re-productive works,
182;
Suggestions,
ib. 183,
184.
Kelly, Mr. (farmer),
262.
Kennedy, J.P.,
186.
Kerry,
269;
state of,
409;
Killala, Dean of,
442.
Killiney Hill, Obelisk on,
24;
view from,
25,
26.
Kilmacthomas,
229.
Labour Rate Act,
168,
193;
Minute on,
169,
173;
Fatal blot in,
175,
176,
296;
labour the property of the tenant,
114.
Labouchere, Mr.,
132,
133,
175.
Letter of,
194,
245;
his defence,
298,
300,
328,
329,
449,
450,
452,
453,
454.
Lancet, The, on Soyer's soups,
430.
Laing, Mr.,
388.
Land laws,
113,
114.
Landlords,
31,
40,
42,
45,
46,
106,
119,
177,
181,
193,
199,
244,
249,
260,
261,
295,
296,
327,
328,
353,
387,
399,
460.
Lansdowne, Lord,
159,
458.
Last Sacraments, Administration of,
286,
393,
413.
Le Hunt, Mr.,
21.
Letters, Analysis of,
67,
500.
Limerick,
118.
Lindley, Professor,
90,
91,
94.
Linen Trade,
38.
Lists, preparation of,
21,
112.
Loan of £8,000,000,
118,
424.
London Tavern Committee,
31,
33.
Lords, House of,
295.
Lord Lieutenant, deputation to,
55;
his reply,
56;
deputation bowed out,
203.
Loss by Blight of 1845,
69.
Macaulay, T.B.,
113.
Mansion House Committee,
33.
"Macedonian," The,
513.
Macroom,
233,
236.
Maginn, Rt. Rev. Dr., on Emigration Scheme,
494.
Mallow,
164,
165,
228.
Malpas, John,
26.
Malta, Comptroller at, mill-power there,
240.
Marsh, Sir Henry, on Soup,
433,
434.
Mathew, Rev. Theobald, 410,
410,
411.
Maryborough,
268.
Mayo, Co.,
203,
268,
269,
300,
385,
386,
387.
M'Culloch, J.R.,
40.
M'Evoy, Rev. Dr.,
51.
M'Hale, Edmund (his case),
270.
M'Kennedy, Denis, inquest on,
257,
258,
259.
M'Loughlin, Patrick (his case),
269,
270.
M'Namara, Major,
210.
M'Neill, Rev. Hugh,
515.
Meagher, T.F.,
134,
143,
144,
145.
Mealmongers,
222.
Memorandums, Sir R. Peel's to his Cabinet,
91,
93,
95,
96.
Millet, Mr.,
212,
213.
Mill-power,
237,
238,
239,
240,
242.
Milltown, Lord, letter of,
137.
Misrepresentation of Blight,
202.
Mitchel, John,
142,
143,
146.
Monsell, Mr. (now Lord Emly),
188, et seq.
Monteagle, Lord,
197,
198,
204.
Moore, G.H.,
315, et seq.
Moore, Rev. Wm.P.,
118,
178,
179.
Moral Force,
147,
148.
Morning Chronicle,
118,
199,
200,
266.
Motion for a Committee on the state of Ireland,
108.
Mountcashel, Lord,
228.
Mount Gabriel,
401.
Mulock, Mr. Thomas, on the Emigration Scheme,
493.
Murray, Sir James,
63.
Naremberga, a name for the potato,
5.
Nation, The (Dublin. Newspaper),
147.
Navigation Laws,
10.
Newry,
119.
New York, Committee on Emigration at,
498,
500;
Report,
500;
Witnesses,
500,
501,
502.
Notices, Threatening,
232.
Obelisk at Castletown,
16;
at Killiney,
25,
26.
O'Brien's bridge,
256.
O'Brien, Mr. C., M.P.,
210,
211.
O'Brien, Sir Lucius,
29.
O'Brien, Stafford,
104.
O'Brien, Wm. Smith,
105,
106,
134,
139,
297,
308 (note),
326,
344,
347,
348,
449;
his imprisonment,
(Note B.),
540.
O'Connell,
45;
his plan to meet the Famine,
53,
105,
110,
111;
Remarkable speech of,
112,
134,
135,
136,
137,
184,
187;
his death, and character,
460,
461,
462,
463,
464,
465,
466,
467,
468,
469.
O'Connell, John,
141,
142,
143,
144,
145.
O'Connor, Rev. B., statement of,
274.
Old Ireland,
138.
Opanawk, a name for the potato,
5.
Osborne, Mr. Bernal,
326,
344,
350.
O'Sullivan, Archdeacon,
519.
Overseers,
205.
Palmerston, Lord,
133.
Pamphlets, Haliday,
8,
9.
Papas, a name for the potato,
6.
Parliament,
293.
Parliamentary Papers,
506.
Parnell, Sir Henry,
43,
44
Peace Resolutions, The,
138;
interpretation of,
142.
Peel, Sir Robert,
58,
76,
77,
78 (bis),
80,
81,
82,
84,
86,
89,
91;
differences in his Cabinet,
93.
Reasons for not resigning,
94.
resigns,
97,
99,
100,
102,
103,
109,
110;
defeated,
116,
117;
speech on resignation,
122,
123;
death of,
124;
character,
124,
149,
160,
304,
324,
345,
354,
355,
356.
Penal Laws,
21.
Pensions to Apostate Priests,
44.
Perceval, Captain,
242.
Pigot, Sir Hugh,
408.
"Pits," The (large graves),
278.
Playfair, Professor,
90,
91,
94.
Poor Laws,
458.
Potato (Sweet),
3;
Potato of Virginia,
3,
5,
10,
12,
27,
28,
29,
32,
34,
36,
458,
476 (two years old).
"Potato Mirage,"
119 (note);
price of,
119;
value of whole crop,
153;
failure said to be exaggerated,
201;
value of whole crop,
300.
Power, "Lame Pat,"
229.
Prior, Mr. Thomas,
39.
Proclamation, Proceeding by,
88.
Protectionists,
100.
Public Subscriptions,
509,
523.
Public Works, Commissioners of,
118;
Close of, for 1846,
216;
increase of Labourers on,
218,
424;
cost of,
ib.
Quarter Acre "Gregory" Clause,
331;
Division on,
333.
Quarterly Review,
87.
Queen Elizabeth, The name "Virginia" given in her honour,
5,
34.
Queen's Speech,
99,
166,
294;
letters,
510.
Quern, The Irish,
241.
Quito,
6.
36.
Railroads,
245,
335,
337,
338,
339,
340,
341,
351,
352,
361.
Raleigh, Sir Walter,
2,
3,
4,
6;
grants of land to him,
6,
7 (note),
27.
Rations, Quantity and quality of,
426,
499.
Reclamation of the waste lands,
436,
438,
439,
442,
443,
444,
445,
450.
Redington, Mr.,
132.
Red man, State of,
165 (note).
Relapse,
481.
Relief Bill of 1829,
46.
Relief Commissioners,
422,
446,
447,
458,
459,
460,
469;
money issued,
469;
numbers relieved,
470,
471;
expenses,
471,
472.
Relief Lists, Numbers on,
219,
220.
Religious view of the potato blight,
514,
515,
516.
Rents,
21,
40,
41.
Repeal Association,
106,
137.
Report of Professors Lindley and Playfair,
69.
Reproductive Works,
244.
Resignation of the people,
207 (note).
Resolutions of Mansion House Committee,
65,
66.
Resolutions, The Peace,
138.
Robbers, Gangs of,
19.
Roebuck, Mr., M.P.,
344.
Rot partially ceases,
68.
Rotation of Crops,
12.
Rotunda, Great Meeting at,
283,
284,
285,
286,
287,
288,
289,
290.
Routh, Sir B.,
180,
197,
226.
Royal Agricultural Society,
52,
88,
246,
252,
253,
254,
255.
Russell, Lord John,
97,
109,
116,
131,
132,
149,
150,
162,
163,
167;
letter to Duke of Leinster,
247;
Puzzling,
250,
251,
304;
why there was not an Autumn Session,
304;
Irish Measures,
305,
300,
307,
308,
312 et seq.,
344,
345;
Meeting at his house,
346,
358;
Verdict of wilful murder against him,
416,
417;
on the Emigration Scheme,
425.
Savings' Banks, Deposits in,
214;
Explained,
215.
Scarlet, Mr.,
408.
Scotland, Potato Blight in,
248.
Scrope, Mr. Poulett, M.P.,
161 (note);
on reclamation,
325,
440,
441.
Scurvy,
482.
Seed for next year,
85,
94.
Senior, Nassau William,
518.
Shannon, Great Flood in,
31.
Shaw, Mr., M.P.,
104.
Sheil, R.L.,
132.
Sibthorpe, Captain,
231.
Sicca, Peter,
6.
Silver, scarcity of,
216.
Single drop of blood principle,
147.
Skibbereen,
32,
233,
273;
visit to,
275,
365,
520.
Skull,
399,
400,
407.
Slave Owners, Money granted to,
162.
Sligo, Marquis of,
228,
315.
Smerwick,
3.
Society of Friends,
368,
391,
393;
Committee,
512.
Soup, Definition of,
423,
427.
Soup Kitchens,
311,
314,
315.
Soyer, M.,
428,
429,
430,
434,
435,
436.
Staff of Board of Works,
338.
Stanley, Lord,
94,
296.
Steele, Tom,
143.
Stephenson,
338.
St. Germans, Lord,
109.
Strezelecki, Count,
391,
392,
393.
Stuart de Decies, Lord,
162 (note),
236.
Sullivan, Mick,
164.
Sullivan's, Case of the,
271.
Sweet Potato,
3.
Swelling of the Extremities,
272.
Swift, Jonathan,
12,
41.
Swinford,
479.
Taratouflè, a name for the potato,
5.
Task Work,
205,
206 (note),
208,
209.
Taxes on Property, Partial,
172.
Temporary Relief Act,
421,
425,
427.
Tenant Right,
115.
Tenants,
21.
Terlagh Gurranes, Races at,
23.
Theodore, King,
162.
Theories, Various, on the Blight,
513.
Tickets,
213.
Times Newspaper,
135,
260.
Times Commissioner,
59,
60,
61,
62.
Tools, Difficulty of getting,
216.
Tory Party, Old,
104.
Townsend, Rev. Mr.,
260,
302,
303.
Tranquillity of Ulster, Cause of it,
115.
Treasury Minute,
169,
198 (letter),
423;
Note C.,
543.
Trevelyan, Mr. (now Sir Charles E., Bart.),
171 (note);
his proposal,
406.
Tuam, State of,
257.
Tuke, James H.,
165 (note).
Twelve nights' debate on the Corn Laws,
102.
Tyrone, Lord,
29.
Unions,
427;
Grants to,
510.
Useless Works,
208.
Vaughan, Right Rev. Dr.,
256.
Viceroy, Address of,
20.
Virginia,
5.
Voluntary Subscriptions,
118.
Wages, Rate of,
205.
Wakley, Mr., M.P.
162 (note).
War Expenditure,
339.
Waste Lands, Reclamation of,
184,
185,
186,
324,
325.
Weather,
391.
Wellington, Duke of,
122.
Westport, Deaths at,
228,
393.
W.G.'s Letters on Mayo,
385,
386,
387.
Whately, Archbishop,
518;
His Convert,
518.
Wheat, Price of, in 1740,
18.
William the Third,
10,
38.
Woollen Manufacture,
38.
Workhouses,
121.
Works, Board of,
see Board of Works.
Works, unfinished,
204.
Wynne, Capt.,
206,
207,
210,
365,
366.
Wyse, Thomas,
132.
Youghal,
236.
Young, Arthur,
27,
28,
41,
44.
Young Ireland,
138.
Young Irelanders retire from Conciliation Hall, in a body,
145.