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CRAFT AND INDUSTRY 22

contents : From 1830 - 1860 : Craft & Industry
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Summary: Public Works

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This photograph was taken in Co. Galway in 1898, but it gives us an idea of the many public works schemes running during the Famine. It shows women carrying stones for a new road. The men sitting on the left had broken up the rock. The wages paid to these workers were barely sufficient to provide for the cost of food.

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