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Extract from The Glasgow Courier, 1830, stating an opinion on the Irish immigrants. Quote from "A Century of the Scottish People" by TC Smout, published in 1987. Verses from "Have You... (On the road to Kinlochleven, 1908)" by Patrick McGill. Photograph of slum housing in Guestrow, Aberdeen, 1880. Extract from the Census report of 1871 with comment on the Irish immigrants.