The Outer Edge of Ulster: A Memoir of Social Life in Nineteenth-Century Donegal.
Author: DORIAN, Hugh (Edited by Breandan MacSuibhne & David Dickson).
Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2000. viii, 343 pages. Illustrated. Paperback.
“In 1889 Hugh Dorian, a writing-clerk, sat down to write a ‘true historical narrative’ of the transformation of his home community in the nineteenth century. That community, though never named by Dorian, is the Fanaid peninsula on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal. Dorian writes about the ordinary and the everyday - births, deaths and marriages, hedge-schools and schoolmasters, the poitin industry and donkey races, local systems of land holding, the social position of craftsmen and musicians, and the personal and sectarian hatreds that shaped his childhood. And then he writes about the extraordinary and the incomprehensible - the Great Famine and the ‘mournful silence’ that followed in its wake.
ISBN: 190186670X
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