worst-fed

Updated: May 31, 2025

The poor-law commission of 1839 reported that two million three hundred thousand of the agricultural laborers of Ireland were 'paupers; that those immediately above the lowest rank were the worst-clad, worst-fed, and worst-lodged peasantry in Europe. True indeed! They were lodged in styes, clothed in rags, and fed on the poorest quality of potato.

Augustus J. Thebaud - Irish Race in the Past and the Present