Ciarán Ó Murchadha

Figures in a Famine Landscape (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Figures in a Famine Landscape is a ground-breaking study that follows a number of individuals involved in different public capacities in a particularly afflicted district of Ireland during the Great Famine. The thinking and actions of each had a major effect on the existences - and the survival - of scores of thousands of the destitute poor in Ireland at a crucial point in the country's history. Among these figures are an outspoken newspaper editor; two clergymen (one Catholic, one Protestant); two highly qualified and busy physicians; two landlords and an exterminating agent; a Board of Works official and a Poor Law inspector.

Taking an exhaustive approach to source material that includes private diaries, letters, official reports and correspondence, police files, parliamentary papers and a wealth of newspapers, in this enthralling study the author builds up an in-depth, almost microscopic picture of each individual, providing a unique and very human lens through which to view the Great Famine.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472506665
• Artikelnr.: 45698504

Autorenporträt

Ciarán Ó Murchadha is an independent scholar and leading historian of Ireland's Great Famine. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 (2011).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Preface Maps Introduction 1. Hurricane from the South
West: John Busteed Knox 2. Intrepid Fire-Eater:Captain Edmond Wynne 3. The
Poor Man's Magistrate: John Singleton 4. The Medical Gentleman: Patrick
Maxwell Cullinan 5. The Reverend Sinecurist:Henry Murphy 6. The
Exterminator General: Marcus Keane of Beech Park 7. Father Michael Meehan
and the Little Ark 8. The Cabin Tumbling Warrior: Crofton Moore Vandeleur
9. The Most Charitable Officer: Captain A.E. Kennedy 10. The Famine
Landscape Notes Bibliography Index