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📱 eBook en inglés CONNEMARA AFTER THE FAMINE

Journal of a Survey of the Martin Estate by Thomas Colville Scott, 1853

TIM ROBINSON

The Lilliput Press - 9781843512837

Estudios literarios Epistolarios

Sinopsis de 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, thieving beggars and the works of Papistry are those of a cocksure Scots metropolitan – and his account of a meeting of the Clifden Workhouse Guardians is as brutally comic as Thackeray – but his dealings with human flotsam such as the tiny chimneysweep running naked through the snow shows a warm-heartedness that makes this journal as moving as it is richly informative. Drawings by the author and sketches from contemporary guidebooks illustrate the text. Tim Robinsons introductory essay locates Colville Scotts responses within the frame of Connemara history and the nineteenth century. His annotations and map detailing the Martin Estate enable the reader to follow, day by day, the young surveyor on his exploration of this inhabited desolation, Connemara after the Famine.

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Editorial: The Lilliput Press

ISBN: 9781843512837

Idioma: Inglés

Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/01/1996

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