sentences:  There were extensive indications that many of the previously Unionist class, in both the cities and among land owners, were resentful of the neglect of Irish needs by the British Parliament since the famine began.What they demanded was vital legislative action to provide both employment and food, and to prevent all further export of the corn, cattle, pigs and butter which were still leaving the country.On this there was a general consensus of Irish opinion according to Dennis Gwynn, "such as had not been known since before the Act of Union."