‘And this in thriving and prosperous Antrim!’: An Anglo-Irish landlord’s perspective on the Famine
The article is a study of a pamphlet published in 1847 by Alexander Shafto Adair, a landlord in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, and a Whig MP. In addition to being a valuable testimony as to the situation in one of the least affected areas of Ireland during the Great Famine, the pamphlet reveals the concerns...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:rfcb_263 https://doi.org/10.4000/rfcb.263 urn:doi:10.4000/rfcb.263 en https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb/263 2015-03-24T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/k11g https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ‘And this in thriving and prosperous Antrim!’: An Anglo-Irish landlord’s perspective on the Famine Revue française de civilisation britannique CRECIB - Centre de recherche et d'études en civilisation britannique info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2429-4373 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0248-9015 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/rfcb Hutchinson, Wesley The article is a study of a pamphlet published in 1847 by Alexander Shafto Adair, a landlord in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, and a Whig MP. In addition to being a valuable testimony as to the situation in one of the least affected areas of Ireland during the Great Famine, the pamphlet reveals the concerns of Irish landlords who were then being scapegoated by the English. If Adair concurs with a number of objectives of the Government, such as consolidation of the land and encouragement to the emigration of tenants, his initatives also aim at presenting Irish landlords in the best possible light in order to secure an understanding with London. Yet his blindness to the plight of the poor also participated in the creation of a resentful Irish diaspora that was to support the emerging nationalist movement. Cette étude d’un pamphlet écrit en 1847 par Alexander Shafto Adair, propriétaire foncier à Ballymena dans le comté d’Antrim et député whig, est à la fois un témoignage précieux quant à la situation dans l’une des régions les moins affectées par la famine et un révélateur des soucis de la classe propriétaire, alors dénoncée en Angleterre. Si Adair souscrit à plusieurs objectifs de Londres, comme le remembrement des terres et l’incitation à l’émigration des métayers, ses initiatives visent aussi à présenter les propriétaires terriens sous un jour favorable afin de parvenir à une entente avec le gouvernement. Mais sa méconnaissance du vécu des pauvres contribua à l’émergence d’une diaspora hostile, qui devait par la suite soutenir le mouvement nationaliste irlandais. |
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The article is a study of a pamphlet published in 1847 by Alexander Shafto Adair, a landlord in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, and a Whig MP. In addition to being a valuable testimony as to the situation in one of the least affected areas of Ireland during the Great Famine, the pamphlet reveals the concerns of Irish landlords who were then being scapegoated by the English. If Adair concurs with a number of objectives of the Government, such as consolidation of the land and encouragement to the emigration of tenants, his initatives also aim at presenting Irish landlords in the best possible light in order to secure an understanding with London. Yet his blindness to the plight of the poor also participated in the creation of a resentful Irish diaspora that was to support the emerging nationalist movement. |
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‘And this in thriving and prosperous Antrim!’: An Anglo-Irish landlord’s perspective on the Famine |
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‘And this in thriving and prosperous Antrim!’: An Anglo-Irish landlord’s perspective on the Famine |
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‘And this in thriving and prosperous Antrim!’: An Anglo-Irish landlord’s perspective on the Famine |
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‘And this in thriving and prosperous Antrim!’: An Anglo-Irish landlord’s perspective on the Famine |
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‘And this in thriving and prosperous Antrim!’: An Anglo-Irish landlord’s perspective on the Famine |
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‘and this in thriving and prosperous antrim!’: an anglo-irish landlord’s perspective on the famine |
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