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The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal
Hugh Dorian
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; BGH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 549.
Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. He survived Ireland’s Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the shadow of trouble. Three of his children died from disease and his wife fell drunk into the River Foyle and drowned. Dorian declined into alcohol-numbed poverty and died in an overcrowded slum in 1914. A unique document survived the tragedy of Dorian’s life. In 1890 he completed a “true historical narrative” of the social and cultural ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268037116
SKU
V9780268037116
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About Hugh Dorian
Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), was a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal. Breandán Mac Suibhne is associate professor of history at Centenary College. David Dickson is associate professor of history at Trinity College, Dublin.
Reviews for The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal
“The Outer Edge of Ulster is the evocative memoir of Hugh Dorian, a country schoolmaster from County Donegal. Dorian’s Narrative looks back to the years surrounding the Great Famine and weaves a richly textured tapestry of people and landscape that transports us to another place and time. It remains one of the very few first-hand accounts of this tumultuous era ... Read more