The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and the Land Question

by James S. Donnelly Jr.

Book Overview

First published in 1975. Using estate records, local newspapers and parliamentary papers, this book focuses upon two central and interrelated subjects - the rural economy and the land question - from the perspective of Cork, Ireland's southernmost country. The author examines the chief responses of Cork landlords, tenant farmers and labourers to the enormous difficulties besetting them after 1815. He shows how the great famine of the late 1840s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138739979
• ISBN13: 9781138739970
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"