Vulgar words in The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) - With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines (Page 1)
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He was revived by the food, and had strength enough to make up two loads of turf, which he sold, and bought an ass, which he killed, and tried to cook and eat.
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Ass and horse flesh were anxiously sought for, even when the animals died of disease or starvation.
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A fortnight earlier a most circumstantial account of the eating of ass flesh is given by a commercial gentleman in a letter addressed to the Premier, Lord John Russell, and dated "Ballina, Christmas-eve."