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FROM 1870 - 1914 > BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS |
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A Fashionable Wedding This photograph records the wedding which united two of Ulster’s wealthiest families. Thomas Andrews, a Harland & Wolff director, was ... |
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Wedding Group This wedding group photo taken early in the 20th century is evidence of a strange custom. The group photo includes the driver who is ... |
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Country Wedding This photograph shows a group of boys wearing straw costumes escorting the bride to the church. There are 6 strawboys in the photograph. |
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Temperance March Opposition to the production and sale of alcohol was very powerful around the turn of the century. The temperance movement organised ... |
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Feast Days Drinking alcohol played an important part in many of Ireland’s feast days and folk festivals. Whiskey was readily available and poteen, ... |
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Open Air Service Many churches were keen to preach the gospel to those people who did not attend church on a regular basis. The photograph shows an open ... |
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Open Air Mass Holding mass in the open air had been widely practised by Catholics during the penal restrictions of the 18th century and this tradition ... |
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Choir Outing The Church was the main organiser of social events during this period. This photograph taken around 1900 shows the choir of a Portadown ... |
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The Sabbath Day This was a popular rhyme from the late 19th century which gives some indication of just how strictly Sundays were observed. Children ... |
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Sunday School Outing For some children the only outing of the year was the Sunday School excursion. Sometimes they went to seaside resorts like Portrush or ... |
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