Lord George Hill: the good, the bad and the sad – A Talk by Roy Greenslade

About the show

Lord George Hill was a man with good intentions, a landlord who sought to do right by his tenants. He learned to speak Irish, he lavished money on his Donegal estates, he tried to improve agricultural practices. And, to his credit, he ensured that none of his tenants died in the Great Hunger. So why did his experiment fail? What does it tell us about the collapse of landlordism as a system of control in 19th century Ireland?