Figures in a Famine Landscape
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 8. September 2016
240 Seiten
978-1-4725-0863-8 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
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.
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Auflage
1. Auflage
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Verlagsgruppe
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
10
ISBN-13
978-1-4725-0863-8 (9781472508638)
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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).
Inhalt
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
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
