Figures in a Famine Landscape

<i>Figures in a Famine Landscape </i>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. <br/><br/>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.