{"product_id":"forgotten-ireland-50-abandoned-places-and-the-stories-behind-them-9798196107313","title":"Forgotten Ireland: 50 Abandoned Places and the Stories Behind Them","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rory Denham\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Ireland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbandoned places. Irish history. Fifty stories from Ireland's forgotten landscape.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eForgotten Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e is a richly researched journey through\u003cb\u003e 50 abandoned\u003c\/b\u003e, overlooked and historically charged places across the whole island of Ireland - from Famine villages and workhouse ruins to Big Houses, evacuated islands, industrial sites, Magdalene laundries, border crossings and the physical remains of the Troubles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a deserted Famine village on the slopes of Croagh Patrick to Maze\/Long Kesh and the H-Blocks associated with the 1981 hunger strike, from a Georgian mansion burned during the Civil War to a Connemara coastguard station whose officer fed 200 starving people a day and was reprimanded for it, this book tells the stories that heritage guides often leave unasked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is not a photography book.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery entry answers four questions: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWho built it?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWho funded it?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat specific decision caused its abandonment?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhat remains today?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter includes three striking, independently checkable facts and ends in the present tense - with the current legal status, ownership, access position and any ongoing inquiry, conservation or redevelopment process. Because many of these stories are not finished.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fifty places are organised into six powerful sections: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe Ascendancy and Its Ruins\u003c\/b\u003e - 10 Big Houses, mansions and castles shaped by the Famine, the Land Acts and political violence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFamine Landscapes\u003c\/b\u003e - 8 workhouses, mass graves, eviction sites, deserted villages and relief sites from 1845-1852\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eInstitutional Ireland\u003c\/b\u003e - 8 psychiatric hospitals, industrial schools, Magdalene laundries and mother and baby homes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIndustrial Collapse\u003c\/b\u003e - 8 linen mills, coal mines, shipyards, factories and power stations from Belfast to the Shannon\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eIsland Ireland\u003c\/b\u003e - 8 evacuated, abandoned and stubbornly inhabited Atlantic islands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBorder Country and the Troubles\u003c\/b\u003e - 8 watchtowers, fortified stations, ambush sites, prison blocks, border crossings and contested walls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBuilt from documented sources, official inquiry reports, archival records, heritage surveys and local authority records, \u003ci\u003eForgotten Ireland\u003c\/i\u003e traces the decisions that left marks in stone, field, road, wall and shoreline.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bodies beneath the car park in Cork are documented. The institutional buildings converted into hotels and apartments are documented. The island families who waited years for the government to answer their evacuation requests are documented. The ruins are not just atmospheric backdrops - they are evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor readers who want Irish history from the ground up, one place at a time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers of Irish history, Famine history, the Troubles, abandoned places, heritage non-fiction, social history, institutional history and hidden histories of Ireland. An ideal gift for anyone with a connection to Ireland, north or south, at home or abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892911423639,"sku":"9798196107313","price":1707.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196107313.webp?v=1781189922","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/forgotten-ireland-50-abandoned-places-and-the-stories-behind-them-9798196107313","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}