Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland

To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – Luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland''s history from 1800-1914. It covers wide range of aspects of everyday lives: from work on ...