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…showed last 75 words of 624 total…in a perpetual state of bondage. The whole agricultural population could be evected at any time if they could not pay their rent. The powerlessness of the Irish people explained by Cecil Woodham-Smith, a renowned historian born in 1896, when she states: "In Ireland alone, the bulk of the population wholly dependant on the land cannot look forward to a single years occupancy of it."(3:24) A peasantry was created which was the most destitute in Europe.