The Irish Newspaper Archive in association with Offaly Historical Society present
Famine and Eviction in the Irish Midlands
8 October 2016
Offaly History Centre, Bury Quay, Tullamore
9.30 am Ciarán Reilly, Welcome & introduction to The Irish Famine Eviction Project
9.45 am Michael Byrne, Urban poverty during the Famine years: the case of Tullamore
10.15 am Lisa Shortall, The diaries of James Dillon, county coroner and the Famine in Offaly
10.45am Andrew Martin, Irish Newspaper Archives as a source for Irish local history
Break 11.15 – 11.30
11.30am Jacqueline Crowley, ‘They may prepare to see the crowbar’: Evictions and the Incumbered Estates Court
- 00 Roisin Lambe, The murder of William Ross Manifold, Land agent in King’s County, 1852
- 30 Mary Delaney, Improvements and evictions in Geashill 1857-1871
For more information see:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwppJom_CGvDY0RCZU5sOUtwcFU/view?usp=sharing
irishfamineeviction.com 