essay
Images of development and underdevelopment in Glencolumbekille, County Donegal, 1830-1970
Rural change in Ireland • Belfast • Published In 1999 • Pages: 84-115
By: Tucker, Vincent.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article takes a dependency and world theory perspective on two periods in the history of a parish in County Donegal: the 1830s-1880s, around the time of the Great Famine; and the post-World War Two through 1960s Bretton Woods period. Although Glencolumbkille has been portrayed as "remote, inaccessible, marginal, disadvantaged, underdeveloped," it is argued that the county has long been integrated into the global economy, as a supplier of cod, ling and, later, herring to European markets. These links were cut by the colonial government and the county became an area to be "regulated, improved, ordered, developed, and modernized." The traditional mixed and communal ([n]rundale[/n]) farming system was broken up in an effort to rationalize land use and obtain higher rents. Open fields were enclosed and property boundaries redrawn, breaking up the nucleated ([n]clachan[/n]) settlements and creating a dispersed housing pattern in its stead. The practice of rent racking destabilized the livelihood of tenants on the eve of the Great Famine.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Economic planning and development
- Cultural goals
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- External trade
- Standard of living
- Administrative agencies
- External relations
- Political movements
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Rural Irish
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2016
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Europe
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- British Isles
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2014
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1601-1974
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Glencolumbkille, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
- NotesAdditional notes
- Vincent Tucker
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 99530979
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ireland--Rural conditions