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Thread #164112 Message #3926586
Posted By: Jim Carroll
23-May-18 - 08:48 AM
Thread Name: How reliable is Folk History ?
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: How reliable is Folk History ?
I wan't aware of Slevin's work but I do know that Malcommson was an unashamed advocate of Leitrim's good character - hardly borne out by the description of him by his colleagues in The House of Lords
Your insistence of "real historians" can hardly include a writer of fiction as an expert
This is probably the most revealing evidence of the likelihood of it having happened
SEXUAL INTEMPERANCE AND MONEY ON AN IRISH ESTATE 1840S
This, from a review of Slevin's book makes interesting reading
As a young man he was preoccupied with “social life, travel and the opposite sex” and left a trail of lovers and mistresses across the continent. His siblings relied on him as the only one capable of dealing with their mother’s mental illness, which he apparently did with patience and love.
Hardly attributes that we normally associate with Lord Leitrim, a man we are more used to describing as an embittered tyrant and oppressor who was disliked by his fellow-landlords as much as by his tenants.
In the Mohill & District Historical and Heritage Society talk on April 11,
“He was not a bad man if he got his way”
Jim Carroll