The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

Samuel Murray Hussey and Home Gordon

Collecting rents in nineteenth-century Ireland was dangerous work, and Samuel Hussey did it for fifty years. His reminiscences brim with evictions, threats, wit, and hard stories from the Land War era, told by a man who stood between landlord and tenant. A vivid, unvarnished memoir of rural Ireland at its most turbulent. History from the middle of the fight.