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FROM 1830 - 1860 > GATHERING PLACES |
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Pig Fair Pig fairs were held in most towns and villages before the Famine. They always attracted large, boisterous crowds. This illustration is ... |
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Fish Market Rural dwellers made the journey to towns on market days to buy fresh fish. Women often haggled over prices. |
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Famine Fever, Workhouse Each workhouse had an infirmary which housed those suffering from famine fever or typhus.
This was caused by lice which lived on the ... |
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Hurling Until the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1884, neighbouring parishes organised challenge matches with each other. There ... |
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Election Meeting Elections in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s were boisterous affairs. Election meetings drew large crowds and they were often associated ... |
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Donnybrook Fair Fair days drew large crowds. Farmers sold livestock and bought goods such as pottery. Donnybrook Fair attracted huge crowds, many of ... |
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Campbell College In Belfast, schools like St. Malachy’s and Victoria charged high fees which meant that only wealthy families were interested, but the ... |
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Workhouse Gates Even though conditions were awful inside the workhouse, thousands of the starving poor were desperate to be taken in. |
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Dormitory Block, Clogher Workhouse Clogher workhouse was completed in 1844. The dormitory block in the photograph housed up to 500 inmates. |
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Bog Village Bog village in Co. Roscommon was a collection of poor cottages. Land-hungry families had worked hard to reclaim this marginal land on ... |
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