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The Outer Edge Of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal
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By: Hugh Dorian
Publisher: The Lilliput Press Ltd
Published: March 2012
Pages: 492
Categories: Humanities
Language: English
Available as: Ebook
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ISBN-13: 9781843514794

Chapters in The Outer Edge of Ulster are devoted to strikingly frank discussions of the social position of craftsmen and musicians; local systems of land holding; the experience of famine; smallholder relationships with landlords and bailiffs; and the rival systems of teaching in hedge-schools and the new national schools. In the 1890s, Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal, completed a remarkable memoir which he entitled 'Donegal Sixty Years Ago'. This fascinating text, although intended by Dorian for publication, is seeing the light of day only now, a century later. The author, an impoverished school-teacher and writing clerk, wrote with confidence and passion about the world of his childhood and the powerful alien forces that had destroyed that world. Dorian provides extraordinary insights into the sectarian tensions between Catholics and Protestants in what was a remote corner of Ulster, and also illuminates the social and political fissures within Catholic society in a period of rapid cultural change. Chapters in The Outer Edge of Ulster are devoted to strikingly frank discussions of the social position of craftsmen and musicians; local systems of land holding; the experience of famine; smallholder relationships with landlords and bailiffs; the rival systems of teaching in hedge-schools and the new national schools; the ritualized debates between community leaders at 'nightly meetings'; the place of the poitin industry; and a broad array of popular beliefs, customs and practices. BRENDAN MAC SUIBHNE is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. DAVID DICKSON is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Arctic Ireland: The Great Frost and Forgotten Famine of 1740-41 (1997), and a co-editor of The United Irishmen (Lilliput, 1993) and The 1798 Rebellion: A Bicentennial Perspective (2000).

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