Letters from Ireland / Harriet Martineau ; Glenn Hooper, editor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.

Contributor:

Hooper, Glenn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--Description and travel.

Ireland.

Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876--Travel--Ireland.

Martineau, Harriet.

Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.

Travel.

Physical Description:

vii, 200 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2001.

Contents:

Letter 1 Lough Foyle and its environs 26

Letter 2 West of Ulster

Weeds

London Companies

Templemoyle Agricultural School 30

Letter 3 The Derry and Coleraine Railway

Produce and Traffic of the District

Beautiful Scenery

What can public works do for Ireland? 36

Letter 4 The Linen Manufacture

Flax Growing and Dressing 41

Letter 5 Agricultural Improvement in Ulster 46

Letter 6 Ireland dying of too much doctoring

The 'Tenant Right' Question 50

Letter 7 How Ireland is to get back its woods 55

Letter 8 Leinster

Irish Industry

Religious Feuds 60

Letter 9 The Women 65

Letter 10 Railway from Dublin to Galway

Bog of Allen 69

Letter 11 Galway 74

Letter 12 Connemara 80

Letter 13 The People and the Clergy 85

Letter 14 English settlers in the 'Wilds of the West' 90

Letter 15 Achill 95

Letter 16 The Wilds of Erris 100

Letter 17 Castlebar

Paupers

Emigrant Family 105

Letter 18 Irish Landlords and Irish Potatoes 110

Letter 19 Landlords, Priests, and voters 115

Letter 20 The Workhouses 119

Letter 21 Killarney 124

Letter 22 The Rival Churches 128

Letter 23 From Killarney to Valentia

Dingle Bay

Cahirciveen 133

Letter 24 Valentia 138

Letter 25 Priests and Landlords

New Features of Irish Life 142

Letter 26 Emigration and Education 147

Letter 27 The People and the two Churches 151.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Chapman, 1852.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0716526530

OCLC:

43562058