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  "name": "Preface to a Tragedy: Part One",
  "headline": "Preface to a Tragedy: Part One",
  "description": "<p>“The following pages are the result of no stretch of imagaination, no creation of fancy. The Glenveigh evictions, by which two hundred and forty human beings were cast homeless, and, I might add, hopeless, on the waves of the world, must still be fresh in the recollection of the most of my readers. Their rents were paid up to the day; they committed no crime under heaven to draw such fearful retribution on their heads, and its consequent misery was the bitter expiation of no fault, no failing of theirs. It was suspected, forsooth, that a few of them were implicated in, and all of them aware of, the murder of a Scotch shepherd, to whom the landord, the infamous John George Adair, rented the mountains he took from the tenants; but, as is shown in the text, that murder was concocted by Adair himself, and executed by his bastard son and his villanous bailiff.</p>\n",
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  "author": {
    "@type": "Person",
    "name": "Robert Spiegelman"
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    "name": "DERRYVEAGH EVICTIONS",
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  "datePublished": "2007-02-07",
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