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"One Englishman, for example, left funds to pay for a group of Irishmen to be assembled at his graveside each year on the anniversary of his death. The Irishmen, so assembled, were to be supplied with liquor and weapons, and would, therefore, he believed, become drunk and violent, destroying each other, thereby assisting in the worthwhile process (as he saw it) of exterminating the Irish race."
BRYANT, Clifton D.; SNIZEK, William E. The Last Will and Testament: A Neglected Document in Sociological Research. In: BRYANT, Clifton D. Handboook of Death and Dying. USA, Taiwan: Virginia Tech University, Chung Yuan Christian University. |