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Brewer's: Drivers
in the Irish uprising about 1843, were persons engaged by landlords to drive all the live stock of defaulting tenants and lodge them in a pound [like that at Carrickmacross]. They were resisted by the Molly Maguires.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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