According to some reports, it happened as recently as the 19th century. Farmers would store butter in bogs for the purpose of ...

A manuscript containing a large hand-written collection of traditional Irish tunes from the North Kilkenny /Laois border area ...

The Material for Victory exemplifies an understudied tradition in late-19th-century Irish sociopolitical history, between the imagined poles of parliamentary and “physical force” nationalisms ...

How the 'hungry gap' caused widespread distress in 19th century Ireland Updated / Tuesday, 25 Jul 2023 12:36 Collecting limpets and seaweed for food in the west of Ireland during the Famine.

Many rural Irish Catholics in the mid-19th century had little opportunity for advancement and only knew one reality—growing potatoes on tiny plots of land for consumption and resale. 3.

Nearly 1.5 million Irish arrived in America between 1845 and 1855 alone. In fact, between 1820 and 1860, the Irish accounted for a third of all immigrants to the United States.