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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.

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Description

xi, 227 pages; 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 > History > Clare > 19th century
• Poor > Clare > History > 19th century
• HISTORY > Europe > Ireland
• HISTORY > 19th Century
• HISTORY > Social History
• 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

• Biographies
• History
• 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 (pages 214-219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. John Busteed Knox, Newspaper Editor -- 2. The Abrasive Captain Wynne -- 3. John Singleton : The Responsible Country Gentleman -- 4. Bickering Physicians : P.M. Cullinan and Michael Healy -- 5. The Parish Incumbent : Rev. Henry Murphy -- 6. The Exterminator General : Marcus Keane of Beech Park -- 7. Fr. Michael Meehan and the Little Ark -- 8. Cabin-Tumbling Warrior : Crofton Moore Vandeleur -- 9. Reluctant Hero : Captain A.E. Kennedy -- 10. Figures in a Famine Landscape.

ISBN

• 9781472514530
• 147251453X
• 9781472511553
• 1472511557
• 9781472508638 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781472506665 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016000481

OCLC

• 921033430
• SCSB-12278310

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library