Letters from Ireland 1882

This series of 58 letters written by Margaret Dixon McDougall (1826-1899) was originally published in the Montreal Witness and compiled into a book under the title:

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland,
Being a Series of Letters to the Montreal "Witness"
As Special Correspondent to Ireland.

Mrs. McDougall went to Ireland with the particular intention of examening the 'Land Question' that was of such political importance in Ireland at that time. She describes what she finds with a strong bias in favor of the tenent farmers, who were struggling against poverty, evictions and unjust landlords. Along the way she also provides impressions of the landscape, people, transportation, and other features common to most travelogues.

It does my heart good to find the Irish landscape described as being reminiscent of that part of Canada where my Irish ancestors settled --

Had a sail on Lough Erne at the last of April; tried to find words sufficiently strong to express the beauty of the lake and found none. It is as lovely as the Allumette up at Pembroke. I can not say more than that.

Letters from Ireland 1882

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0nra0000 List of Subscribers
0nra0001 Across the Atlantic
0nra0002 Liverpool to Belfast
0nra0003 County Down
0nra0004 Ballymena, Antrim
0nra0005 Laborers in Down and Antrim
0nra0006 Derry and Ramelton
0nra0007 Donegal
0nra0008 Landlords and Tenants in Donegal
0nra0009 Derryveigh
0nra0010 Donegal Evictions
0nra0011 Glenveigh Castle
0nra0012 Moville to Port-a-dorus
0nra0013 Green Castle; Land League in Inishowen
0nra0014 Cardonagh; Rev. Mr. Bell of Moville
0nra0015 Derry; Tenant Rights
0nra0016 Train Ride; Land League Meeting
0nra0017 Land League Meeting in Omagh
0nra0018 Lord Leitrim; Class Distinctions
0nra0019 The Land Question from Both Sides
0nra0020 Lord Abercorn; Omagh; Enniskillen
0nra0021 Enniskillen; Devenish
0nra0022 Earl of Enniskillen; A Tenants Tale
0nra0023 Lord Belmore, A Model Landlord
0nra0024 Cecil White, Manor Hamilton, Leitrim
0nra0025 Manor Hamilton Labouring Class
0nra0026 Kiltyclogher Evictions; Mr. Tottenham
0nra0027 Interview with Mr. Corscadden
0nra0028 Manor Hamilton Workhouse; Sligo
0nra0029 Lough Gill; Drumahaire
0nra0030 Ballina, Mayo; Miss Gardiner
0nra0031 Killala; Ballysakeery
0nra0032 An Eviction in the Ox Mountains
0nra0033 The White Horse of Mayo
0nra0034 Rappa Castle and Capt. Knox
0nra0035 Ballina Workhouse
0nra0036 Emigrants; Castlebar
0nra0037 Castlebar; Burke Castle; Ballintubber Abbey
0nra0038 Westport; Newport
0nra0039 Achill Island
0nra0040 Famine Evictions; Planted Scots; Miss Gardner
0nra0041 Knock; Claremorris; Ballinrobe
0nra0042 Capt. Boycott; Castle on Lough Mask
0nra0043 Cong
0nra0044 Ashford Castle; Lough Corrib
0nra0045 Galway to Dublin; Bellinghams and Butlers
0nra0046 Landlords
0nra0047 Weavers; Clones
0nra0048 A Mixed Marriage; County Cavan
0nra0049 Counties Roscommon and Longford
0nra0050 Limerick City; County Clare
0nra0051 Galway Town
0nra0052 Limerick; Lakes of Killarney
0nra0053 Cork City; Queenstown
0nra0054 County Cork
0nra0055 The Sentiment in Cork
0nra0056 Tipperary; Waterford
0nra0057 Dublin; Drogheda; Leaving Ireland
0nra0058 Last Words - Cause of Irelands Troubles