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Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland

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Description for Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland Paperback. Reveals the reality of everyday lives of ordinary Irish families Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 13. Weight in Grams: 420.

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 the many wealthy country estates to grinding poverty in the towns. It covers the transformative effects of the railway development and Ireland’s first tourist boom. Workhouse life and the new Poor Law system which ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
The History Press Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
420g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Stroud, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845887438
SKU
V9781845887438
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Dr Ian Maxwell
Ian Maxwell writes for family history magazines including Family History Monthly and Ancestry Magazine. He is an expert on Irish Family History and has written a number of guides (HMSO, Pen and Sword and How-to Books). He is a former Public Records Officer, Northern Ireland.

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