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Star of the Sea : A Postcolonial/Postmodern Voyage into the Irish Famine

The Number of People Who Got Evicted

According to the 2004 article called “Famine Clearances” by Ciara Murchadha, “approximately about half a million people were permanently expelled from their homes” (245). O’Connor also depicts the issue of evictions in his novel. Many of the evictions in O’Connor’s novel are committed under the direction of Commander Blake who, as mentioned in the previous pages, had no sympathy for the tenants. O’Connor writes that since Blake was a very rich landlord who could afford to buy huge lands, there was a time “[he] immediately evicted 700 hundred families” (241). There is no doubt, then, that evictions affected a large amount of Irish people, especially during the famine.
                                                                                 
Works Cited
Murchadha, Ciarán Ó. "Famine Clearances." Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture. Ed. James S. Donnelly, Jr. Vol. 1. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2004. 245-247. World History in Context. Web. 11 Feb. 2016.

O'Connor, Joseph. Star of the Sea. Orlando: Harcourt, 2002. Print.
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