{"title":"Breandán Mac Suibhne, The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland","authors":"H. Laird","doi":"10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8716","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This is a rare publication in that it is both a thoroughly-researched scholarly text and an invitation to the reader to take an imaginative leap. Through a detailed account of an incident that took place in West Donegal in the mid-1850s, we learn about a key transitionary period in Irish history. But the book is much more than an analysis of a historical moment; rather it encourages us to cross a chasm of understanding and worldviews so that, even if only tentatively and momentarily, we see t...","PeriodicalId":84699,"journal":{"name":"Etudes irlandaises","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Etudes irlandaises","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/etudesirlandaises.8716","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This is a rare publication in that it is both a thoroughly-researched scholarly text and an invitation to the reader to take an imaginative leap. Through a detailed account of an incident that took place in West Donegal in the mid-1850s, we learn about a key transitionary period in Irish history. But the book is much more than an analysis of a historical moment; rather it encourages us to cross a chasm of understanding and worldviews so that, even if only tentatively and momentarily, we see t...