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FROM 1830 - 1860 > GATHERING PLACES |
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Rebellion Before the end of the Famine the Young Ireland movement staged a rebellion at Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary. They clashed with police who ... |
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Monster Meeting O’Connell’s great Repeal Meetings of 1843 drew huge crowds. These meetings were a great spectacle and thousands of people would line ... |
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Portlaw Village Portlaw village in Co. Waterford was an example of a carefully planned settlement. It provided suitable housing (designed for different ... |
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Father Matthew The great temperance campaigner, Father Matthew, devoted himself to reducing alcohol abuse in Ireland. He drew great crowds to his ... |
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Cork Church This beautiful Cork Church was designed in 1832 and it was almost 50 years before the building was completed. It attracted very large ... |
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Workhouse Plan This workhouse plan shows how inmates were segregated into male and female, young and old. Even husbands and wives were separated. |
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Petty Sessions This sketch shows a petty session court in progress in the 1840s. Three magistrates are listening to the arguments between the two men. ... |
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Parish Church, Kilrea A new parish church was built in Kilrea in 1840. The beautiful building cost £6000. The organ, one of the oldest in Ireland, is ... |
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Plaguey Hill The rapid growth of Belfast in the early part of the 19th century contributed to the spread of disease in the poor conditions. Belfast ... |
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Beggars This sketch records a scene in Cork in the 1830s. It shows a swarm of beggars surrounding a coach. Nearly every traveller to Ireland ... |
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