bofin

Updated: May 24, 2025

From Ballynakill where the ribs rising in the green grass-land, like waves in an emerald sea, tell of extinct cultivation, of depopulated villages, and an "exterminated" people to the supremely wretched islands of Bofin and Turk, the record is fearfully consistent. A people first neglected, and then crushed by evictions, has sunk quite below the level of civilization. ENNIS, CO. CLARE, Nov. 21st.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.