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Extract from the Cork Examiner, 1846, describing the effects of the famine. Letter from Johann Kohl, a German visitor to Ireland in 1844, describing the division of farms. Verses from the traditional song Skibbereen detailing the reasons a man left Ireland. "My son I loved my native land…". Cartoon taken from the magazine Punch in 1861, and titled "Punch attacks landlords". Extract from the report on Rural Distress, 1881, describing conditions for farmers in Ireland.