The Irish
A Photohistory 1840-1940
Sean Sexton
Christine Kinealy
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| ‘… the intellectual content informs the visual and more importantly, the visual content informs and illuminates the intellectual ... scholarly and authoritative ... largely devoid of sentimentality and posturing ... an excellent work of history, written by an author with a genuine passion for the history of Ireland’ | | – Emerald Journal Library Review |
The first photographs of Ireland date from 1840 when no one could have forseen the catastrophe that was about to unfold there. The Great Famine was to kill over a million Irish poor between 1846 and 1851, and force an even greater number to flee the horrors of their homeland.
In the following decades, Irish political life was dominated by the struggle for land rights, for Home Rule, and ultimately for independence. As that story unfolds in this book we encounter inspirational leaders and impatient rebels, and their campaigns of persuasion and violence. We glimpse too the injusticies that inspired them, and above all the mass eviction of destitute peasants from their homes and lands by the heavy hand of
the law.
Yet these images do much more than tell a gripping political story. They give an insight into a people, a landscape and a lost way of life. Covering the first century of Ireland in the era of photography, this enthralling visual history brings the past vividly to life.
Also of interest:
Traditional Crafts of Ireland
Mythic Ireland
Ireland: A Concise History
Irish Art: A Concise History
The Scots: A Photohistory |
|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500510970 | | ISBN-13 978-0500510971 | | | | 25.0 x 24.0 cm | | Hardback | | 224pp | | With 271 illustrations in quadratone | | First published 2002 | | | | £24.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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