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James Hack Tuke
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James Hack Tuke
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James Hack Tuke
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James Hack Tuke
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Fleeing from Famine in Connemara
Between 1882 and 1884 the English philanthropist and Quaker, James Hack Tuke assisted nearly 5,000 poor and destitute people from Connemara and sent them to the United States and Canada. The aim was to rescue them from perennial starvation and famine, while at the same time improving the position of those who remained at home as they would have more land and receive remittances from the emigrants. [Subjects: Irish History; Nineteenth-Century History; Emigration; Philanthropy; Social History; Connemara; Great Irish Famine].
James Hack Tuke
Excerpt from James Hack Tuke: A Memoir The reader will at once perceive how great has been the part which Mrs Tuke has taken in this memoir; in fact she has been rather a joint author than a mere contributor. My thanks for assistance are due to her and to other members of the family; to the Rev. W. S. Green for interesting contributions in respect of the Congested Districts Board to the Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, Mr. Sydney Buxton, Mr. H. A. Robinson (the vice-president of the Local Govern ment Board in Ireland), and many others, for permission to use letters addressed to them; to Mr. James Knowles and Mr. Percy W. Bunting for leave to reprint extracts from T/ze Nineteenth Century and The Con...
Emigration from Ireland; Being the Second Report of the Committee of "Mr. Tuke's Fund": Together with Statements by Mr. Tuke, Mr. Sydney Buxton, Major Gaskell, and Captain Ruttledge-Fair
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
