Author Maggie O'Farrell discovered her great-great-grandfather was an Irish mapmaker for the Ordnance Survey who worked mapping Ireland after the Great Famine of 1846-1852. She found him in archival records and a family photograph, which inspired her novel "Land" exploring how he and his family survived that catastrophic period.
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Author Maggie O'Farrell discovered her great-great-grandfather was an Irish mapmaker for the Ordnance Survey who worked mapping Ireland after the Great Famine of 1846-1852. She found him in archival records and a family photograph, which inspired her novel "Land" exploring how he and his family survived that catastrophic period.