- Have you read this letter from the Rector of Skull?
He writes that people in his parish are living off seaweed and nettles.
- As you will see in my memorandum of the 17th, ma'am, nettles contain more nourishment than you might imagine.
I believe, when gathered young, the leaves taste like spinach.
- Doctor Traill writes that people are too weak to bury their dead.
And that corpses are left by the side of the road.
- The Irish like to imbibe at funerals.
Perhaps that is why they are incapable of digging a decent grave.
- Aren't you going to do anything, Prime Minister?
- I'm afraid it would not be desirable for the government to intervene, ma'am.
- The truth is, ma'am, the population of Ireland has grown beyond its natural limits.