Sligo-Leitrim World of Kate Cullen 1832-1913

Kate Cullen's riveting account of the close-knit life of Protestant Ireland, a society absorbed in its own triumphs and misfortunes, in its religion and fashions, and yet conscious that history was being made. During the 1840s she lived in Dublin and visited Sligo, Donegal and Leitrim. She witnessed the Famine, though was cushioned from it.