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Carlow County - Ireland Genealogical Projects (IGP ^TM)

FROM CARLOVIANA

THE JOURNAL OF THE OLD CARLOW SOCIETY

Vol 1 No: 2

January 1948

Letters From America

Contributed by

MISS T. KELLY.

Source: Carloman. c2005

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The warm reception was given to the first collection of " Letters from America," published in the first number of this Journal, has encouraged us to present, some further extracts from the correspondence of Lewis Doyle, a native of Clonegal, addressed to John Doyle of " The Hill," Pollerton Little, his first cousin. These extracts reflect the writer's deep love for Ireland, his fierce resentment at her misgovernment during the hungry years of the eighties, and throw some light on the numbers of Carlow people who emigrated after the great famine. It is hoped that the publication of these letters may lead to the discovery of other such expressions of what has been so well described a "the voice of the authentic exile".

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