ABSTRACT
Ireland, of course, was not the only entity in the British Empire that experienced famine. The following is the official record of a parliamentary investigation of the starvation that was so rampant in the Scottish Highlands, a place that also experienced the same famine that ravaged Ireland. Discussion of the poor resorting to eating seaweed is included. What becomes clear is that the lower classes still dreaded the workhouse and the Poor Laws. For example, a woman, even on the admission of one of the guardians, has actually died of distress in Cloughaneely, and still she refused to go into the workhouse.
