Author: UPTON, WILLIAM C.
Title: Uncle Pat's cabin, or, Life among the agricultural labourers of Ireland
Description: Dublin : Gill 1882. First Edition. Finely bound in modern leather-backed boards. Gilt-blocked leather label to spine. with raised bands and gilt tooling to spine compartments. Pages dust-toned and tanned. particlularly title page and prelims. Remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 282 pages; Description: 282p. (lacking last 2 pages); 19cm. As the title indicates. the allusion is to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin (Boston. 1852). reinforced by parallels drawn between slavery in America and the state of the Irish peasantry. The story is set mainly in Co. Limerick from the time of the Famine to about 1880; it deals with the hard life of the peasants. who are being evicted from their few acres. Some of them go to America to make a living. The landowner. a Mr Pakenham. thoughtlessly condones the evictions. Later on his daughter marries an American and tries to make up for all the hardship that her father's actions caused. Notes: Dedicated to Michael Davitt. Subjects: Agricultural laborers -- Land tenure -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction. by W. C. Upton.Weight in Kg appr.:

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