Figures in a famine landscape / Ciarán Ó Murchadha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán, author.

Contributor:

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor.

History.

Famines--Social aspects.

Famines.

Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.

Ireland.

Famines--Social aspects--Ireland--Clare--History--19th century.

Poor--Ireland--Clare--History--19th century.

Clare (Ireland)--Biography.

Clare (Ireland).

Ennis (Ireland)--Biography.

Ennis (Ireland).

Clare (Ireland)--History--19th century.

Ennis (Ireland)--History--19th century.

Ireland--Clare.

Ireland--Ennis.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

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

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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

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

Related Work:

Ó Murchadha, Ciarán. Sable wings over the land.

Other Format:

Online version: Ó Murchadha, Ciarán. Figures in a famine landscape.

ISBN:

9781472514530

147251453X

9781472511553

1472511557

OCLC:

921033430

Online:

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