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Notice to Quit : The Great Irish Famine Evictions, Paperback by Curtis, L. Pe...

Description: Notice to Quit : The Great Irish Famine Evictions, Paperback by Curtis, L. Perry, Jr., ISBN 0990468666, ISBN-13 9780990468660, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes the Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music.During the peak years of the great famine at least 750,000 men, women, and children died from either starvation or disease. At the same time roughly 350,000 individuals were driven out of their dwellings. Overall the population of Ireland fell from some million people in 1845 to around million in 1851. This ominous drain of humanity continued at a slower rate well into the twentieth century. Whereas nature could be blamed for the lethal effects of acute hunger or malnutrition, human agency caused much of this devastating loss owing to mass evictions of the poorest tenants and squatters after the agent or bailiff had served them with the dreaded Notice To Quit.This richly illustrated pamphlet contextualizes the mass evictions by focusing on the ideological and economic factors as well as the role of religious and racial prejudice in prompting owners to rid their estates of what was known as a "surplus population." Determined to avoid paying for the maintenance of unprofitable tenants and squatters, landlords sought to avoid insolvency by expelling these pauperized peasants. After destroying their cabins, they consolidated all these small holdings into larger farms or cattle ranches that were rented to solvent tenants. Relying on the laws governing land tenure, letting contracts, and rent, these landlords used the mechanism of eviction to ensure that their estates would become profitable enough to pay for their own privileged way of life.Whether or not the victims of eviction received private or public assistance to emigrate overseas, the results of these clearances were much the same. Thousands of acres were converted to pasturage in parts of Munster and Connaught and small villages or clachans were abandoned. Only the skeletal remains of stone cottages remained--some of which can still be seen today. No wonder that many Irish contemporaries called the evictors "exterminators."

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Book Title: Notice to Quit : the Great Famine Evictions

Number of Pages: 46 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Cork University Press

Topic: Landlord & Tenant, Social Psychology, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Europe / Ireland, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year: 2015

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Law, Social Science, Literary Collections, Psychology, History

Item Weight: 8.8 Oz

Author: L. Perry Curtis

Item Length: 11.8 in

Item Width: 9 in

Book Series: Famine Folio Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback

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