wave of emigration that ever left the shores of Ireland proceeded from Ulster,[1] and during the last fourteen years Ulster's contribution to the general emigration has been greater than that of either Connaught or Leinster, and in the ratio of twenty-three to twenty-seven as compared with the average of the three provinces.
But the greater density of the population of Ulster may be again suggested in mitigation of this comparison. Such a consideration hardly alters the result. The ratio of emigration from Ulster to the population of that province has been as great as the ratio of emigration to population from Leinster and Connaught, though less than that from Munster in the proportion of 1 to 2.[2]
Parliament and unjust landlords we are told are depopulating the south: what occult agencies are effecting a similar operation in the north?
- ↑ See Appendix, p. 85.
- ↑
per cent. Ratio of Emigrants from Leinster 1851 to 1865 308,609 = = 21.1 To Population of Leinster in 1861 1,457,635 Ratio of Emigrants from Connaught 1851 to 1865 197,892 = = 21.4 To Population of Connaught in 1861 913,135 Ratio of Emigrants from Ulster 1851 to 1865 436,354 = = 22.8 To Population of Ulster in 1861 1,914,236 Ratio of Emigrants from Munster 1851 to 1865 626,958 = = 41.4 To Population of Munster in 1861 1,513,558
