
- 240 pages
- English
- PDF
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Figures in a Famine Landscape
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 Hurricane from the South-West: John Busteed Knox
- 2 Intrepid Fire-Eater: Captain Edmond Wynne
- 3 The Poor Man’s Magistrate: John Singleton of Quinville
- 4 The Medical Gentleman: Dr Patrick Maxwell Cullinan
- 5 The Reverend Sinecurist: Henry Murphy
- 6 The Exterminator General: Marcus Keane of Beech Park
- 7 Father Michael Meehan and the Little Ark
- 8 The Cabin-Tumbling Warrior: Crofton Moore Vandeleur
- 9 The Most Charitable Officer: Captain A.E. Kennedy
- 10 The Famine Landscape
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index