The Hunger - Irish, English and Scottish characters (with Liam Neeson)
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1845 Europe is gripped by famine. The little industry called for to rear the potato leads the people to indolence and all kinds of vice which habitual labor and higher order of food would prevent. We entered a cabin in one dark corner with three Children huddled together perfectly emaciated eyes sunk, voices gone. Evidently in the last stage of starvation. I think it very probable that we may derive much advantage from this present calamity. God grant that we might rightly perform our part and not turn into a curse. What was intended as a blessing the country in a state of anarchy. The industrious feel uneasy for the safety of their property, cattle and sheep being carried away. Petty robberies committed on almost every road. The famine is over and no further financial aid can be justified. Police reluctantly proceed armed with bayonet and muskets but the tenants make some show of resistance for these hovels have been built by themselves or their forefathers. Austerity will trace to that famine. The commencement of a solitary revolution in the habits of a nation and acknowledge that supreme wisdom has seduced permanent good out of transient evil is more to create. No.