SHAND, Alexander Innes. Letters from The West of Ireland 1884.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1885. Foolscap octavo. pp. viii, 227, 4. Green decorated cloth, title in gilt on upper cover and spine. Bookplate of John N. Baly on front pastedown. A very good copy. Very scarce.
JISC locates 6 copies only. WorldCat 1.
Alexander Innes Shand (1832-1907) was a Scottish barrister and author, critic, biographer, novelist and travel writer. As a correspondent for The Times he toured the western sea-coast counties of Ireland in 1884, during the height of the Land War. Starting at Buncrana on August 21, he travelled through Donegal, Lough Erne, Sligo, Ballina, Westport, Croagh Patrick, Achill Island, Cong, Joyce Country, Connemara, Galway, Limerick, Kerry, and after one month ends up at Bantry. He gives us a graphic description along his route of the destitution of the tenantry; evictions; angling at Gweedore; beauties of Lough Gill; the heathens of Iniskea; emigration from Mayo; murders in Joyce Country; antiquities of Athenry; fishing on the Shannon; sport at Mucross; wayside beggars; an enterprising railway, etc

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