Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Maps ix
4. Tables xi
5. Illustrations xiii
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Introduction 3
8. Landlords
9. Lord Mount Cashell: An Improving and Evangelical Landlord 13
10. His Lordship’s Adventure Abroad 46
11. The Famine and His Lordship’s Demise 78
12. Major Maxwell’s Irish Estates: A New Kind of Management 92
13. Major Maxwell’s Estate on Amherst Island 118
14. Tenants
15. The Ards Peninsula 139
16. The Emigrants and Their Settlement on Amherst Island 174
17. What It Meant to be a Tenant on Amherst Island 205
18. Conclusion 224
19. Amherst Island Immigrant Families from the Ards* 229
20. Notes 237
21. A Note on Sources 287
22. Index 299