Connemara After the Famine
In the aftermath of the Great Famine of 1845-52, the Martin Estate in the West of Ireland, 200,000-acres of bog and mountain, was put up for sale. Its mortgagees, the London Law Life Insurance Society, evicted many of the tenants, and in February 1853 sent Thomas Colville Scott to conduct a survey of their property. This is his journal, recently discovered at an auction-house in England. Colville Scott records many an extraordinary encounter with individual survivors of the famine, some traumatized into idiocy, others mysteriously bettering themselves on well-nigh invisible means. The descriptions of squalid hostelries, rent-evading tenants,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84351-283-7
- EAN: 9781843512837
- Produktnummer: 13947979
- Verlag: The Lilliput Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 126 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'555 KB
Über den Autor
Tim Robinson, map-maker and writer, was born in England in 1935. He studied mathematics at Cambridge and worked as a teacher and artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London. In 1972 he moved to the West of Ireland and began writing and making maps. He now lives in Roundstone, Connemara.
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