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"Against Shameless and Systematic Calumny": Strategies of Domination and Resistance and Their Impact on the Bodies of the Poor in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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Mid-Victorian British characterizations of Ireland and much of its population blamed race and "moral character" for the widespread poverty on the island. The Irish poor were portrayed as a "race apart" whose inherent failings were at least partly to blame for ... ...