The Lost Gaeltacht

Description

Mártan John Mhailic Sheáin Leachlainn/ Martin O’Halloran

Homefarm Publishing 2020

ISBN 9781916227507

Lth/Pgs 378

This is a story; of severe poverty and congestion in rural slums in the west, the selection process by the Land Commission, threats and conflict, the migration process, settlement and social integration in Allenstown, their struggle for survival during the ‘emergency’, their triumph and their ongoing relationship with the western homeland, and the death of a Gaeltacht. The book also gives a sense of the life in the big house and the dismantling of a country estate.