The Night of the Big Wind 1839 and its effect on the Big Houses of Ireland

The Night of the Big Wind 6 Jan 1839 and its effect on the Big Houses of Ireland. 
This work (which is available both  DVD and book format), is a study on the impact of the night of the big wind on the big houses of Ireland and eliminates from a MA thesis in Irish history The Night of the Big Wind in Ireland (Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) 6 January 1839, resulted in the death of between 500 and 800 people, caused more widespread damage than any storm in recent centuries, made more people homeless in a single night than all the sorry decades of eviction that followed and was without doubt one of the strongest storms ever to hit Ireland – at least in the last 500 years.  The destruction was such that it changed the landscape, dragging away topsoil, destroying the ecosystem, the crops, trees and woodlands   Hundreds of cattle were killed and several bird species were made almost extinct. Castles, Big houses and churches collapsed. Factories and barracks were destroyed. Fires erupted in the streets, canals were blown dry, roads and railway tracks became impassable, trees were pulled up by the roots or snapped in half and sea brine and fish were blown up 15km inland by the force of the hurricane.  The Night of the Big Wind 1839 was a storm so terrible that it rightfully etched a place into the scribes of Irish Folklore and Irish poets and became a point of reference for those wanting to claim the Old Age Pensions Act when it was enacted in January 1909, 70 years after the event. The Big Houses of Ireland had been designed to impress and inspire awe, the big wind of 1839, shook, quite physically the very foundations of the big houses of Ireland, destroyed the landed class’s arboreal illusions of continuity, wreaked havoc on the appearance of good tenant landlord relationships, mocked the illusions of naturalised social hierarchy, family legacy, legitimacy of ownership and sense of belonging. I strongly believe that this subject will have a broad general audience and it will have a very broad general appeal.