Outer Edge of Ulster Dorian
Outer Edge of Ulster Dorian Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the…
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Outer Edge of Ulster Dorian
Hugh Dorian was born in poverty in rural Donegal in 1834. Having lost his job and clashed with priests and policemen, he moved to the city of Derry but never slipped the shadow of trouble. He survived Ireland's Great Famine, only to squander uncommon opportunities for self-advancement.
Dorian declined into alcohol-numbed poverty and died in an overcrowded slum in 1914. Three of his children died from disease and his wife fell drunk into the River Foyle and drowned. A unique document survived the tragedy of Dorian's life.
In 1890 he completed a "true historical narrative" of the social and cultural transformation of his home community. This narrative forms the most extensive lower-class account of the Great Famine. A moving account of the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, it invites comparison with the classic slave narratives of Frederick Douglass and Harriet
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