Sin, Sheep and Scotsmen - George Adair and the Derryveagh evictions, 1861

Sin, Sheep and Scotsmen tells the story of the eviction of forty-seven Donegal families by local landlord George Adair, who believed they were implicated in the murder of his Scottish steward, James Murray. Dr Vaughan unravels the complexities behind this local event and sets it in its wider context; he also charts the extraordinary career of Adair, one of a new breed of entrepreneurial landlords in late nineteenth century Ireland.

This account of the notorious Derryveagh evictions represents an important new contribution to the understanding of the land question in the nineteenth century. On another level, moreover, Dr Vaughan's highly readable story can equally be viewed as a tale of the unhappy consequences of illicit love in a cold climate...

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