Brewer's: Skibbereen and Connemara

(in Ireland). Types of poverty and distress.

“You would then see the United Kingdom one vast Skibbereen or Connemara; you might convert its factories into poor-houses, and its parks into potters fields to bury strangers in.” -

C.Thomson: Autobiography p. 307.

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