Research Catalog

Title

Figures in a famine landscape / Ciarán Ó Murchadha.

Author

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán

Publication

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Supplementary Content

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Details

Description

xi, 227 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• "An examination of the Great Irish Famine of 1845-1852 through the experiences of a selection of significant figures from a region that was badly afflicted"--
• "Figures in a Famine Landscape follows a number of individuals involved in different public capacities in a particularly afflicted district of Ireland during the Great Famine. Among them 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. Some of these figures have been subjected to academic study previously, while others are more obscure, but their thinking and actions all had a major effect on the existences of tens of thousands of the destitute poor in Ireland at a crucial point in the country's history. 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, 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"--

Subject

• Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852)
• 1800-1899
• Famines > Social aspects > History > Ireland > Clare > 19th century
• Poor > Ireland > Clare > History > 19th century
• Famines > Social aspects
• Poor
• Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
• Clare (Ireland) > Biography
• Ennis (Ireland) > Biography
• Clare (Ireland) > History > 19th century
• Ennis (Ireland) > History > 19th century
• Ireland
• Ireland > Clare
• Ireland > Ennis

Genre/Form

• Biography.
• History.

Note

• "The origins of this book go back to an earlier study of 1998, Sable Wings over the Land"--Preface.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Hurricane from the south-west : John Busteed Knox -- Intrepid fire-eater : Captain Edmond Wynne -- The poor man's magistrate : John Singleton of Quinville -- The medical gentleman : Dr. Patrick Maxwell Cullinan -- The reverend sinecurist : Henry Murphy -- The exterminator general : Marcus Keane of Beech Park -- Father Michael Meehan and the Little Ark -- The cabin-tumbling warrior : Crofton Moore Vandeleur -- The most charitable officer : Captain A.E. Kennedy -- The famine landscape.

Call Number

JFE 16-11642

ISBN

• 9781472514530
• 147251453X
• 9781472511553
• 1472511557

LCCN

• 2016000481
• 40026393543

OCLC

921033430

Author

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán, author.

Title

Figures in a famine landscape / Ciarán Ó Murchadha.

Publisher

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chronological Term

1800-1899

Added Author

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán. Sable wings over the land.

Other Form:

Online version: Ó Murchadha, Ciarán. Figures in a famine landscape. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 9781472508638 (DLC) 2016009235

Other Standard Identifier

40026393543

Research Call Number

JFE 16-11642