The Famine in Lurgan/Portadown

• Author(s): Gerard MacAtasney,
• Publisher: Beyond The Pale Publications
• Pages: 126
• ISBN_10: 1900960028
  ISBN_13: 9781900960021
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Europe / Ireland , History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater , Political Science / Propaganda , Social Science / General , Social Science / Disasters & Disaster Relief ,

Description:... The Famine in Lurgan/Portadown,Shows how the Poor Law Board of Guardians and,local voluntary relief committees responded to the,Famine in the Lurgan/Portadown area. It is a,record of tragedy, incompetence, disorganisation,and ignorance and indict the local gentry whose,ideas blinded them to the potential and real,dangers of the Famine until it was too late. An,important contribution to the contemporary debate,about the extent to which Ulster was historically,different from the rest of Ireland.