Society and Manners in Early Nineteenth-Century Ulster

Abstract

This book, all 716 pages of it, comprises of a trilogy penned in quick succession by the Presbyterian John Gamble (1770-1831), a doctor in the British army, in the early nineteenth century, in 1811, 1813 and 1819 respectively. The Gamble surname, Wolfe suggests, is Scandinavian in origin and perhaps related to the uncomplimentary moniker in Irish of gamal or foolish individual. Breandan Mac Suibhne has edited these anew with a lengthy and copiously annotated introduction, a marvellous evocati...