Figures in a Famine Landscape

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.

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• Authors: 211, Ciaran Murchadha, Ciarán Ó, O Murchadha, Ciaran O Murchadha, Ciaran (Ciaran O Murchadha O Murchadha, Ciaran (National University of Ireland O Murchadha, Dr Ciaran (National University of Ireland O Murchadha, Ciarán Ó Murchadha, O Murchadha Ciaran, Ciarán Ó. Murchadha
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.2016
• EAN: 9781472511553
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-1155-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries