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Linda Burgess, a local councilor from Thatcher's old foes, the Labour Party, says the hardest part of restoring prosperity to the area has been undoing the psychological legacy of years of joblessness and despair.

From Reuters • Apr. 12, 2013

In other words, Parliament has been undoing a generation's legislative work upon the Irish land question.

From Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir