/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Skibbereen and Connemara (in Ireland)
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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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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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