Historical Studies, Volume 21Colm Lennon, Jacqueline R. Hill Vol. 1- includes papers before the 1st-2d conferences, 1955-56. |
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... noted a County Clare labourer , ' but the poor man's door is always open'.26 According to William Wilde , the potato was ' the circulating medium for the mendicant'.27 It was customary , almost a social obligation , for householders to ...
... noted a County Clare labourer , ' but the poor man's door is always open'.26 According to William Wilde , the potato was ' the circulating medium for the mendicant'.27 It was customary , almost a social obligation , for householders to ...
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... noted in the mid - 1950s that domestic servants had become hard to find and very expensive , and therefore suggested that middle - class families be subsidised to employ servants . This caused Ruaidhri Roberts to point out ( in a ...
... noted in the mid - 1950s that domestic servants had become hard to find and very expensive , and therefore suggested that middle - class families be subsidised to employ servants . This caused Ruaidhri Roberts to point out ( in a ...
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... noted that in west Mayo married women in the 1970s valued the money they earned outside the home for the freedom it gave them to buy things for themselves and for the house . 38 Several of my informants gave what they considered to be ...
... noted that in west Mayo married women in the 1970s valued the money they earned outside the home for the freedom it gave them to buy things for themselves and for the house . 38 Several of my informants gave what they considered to be ...
Contents
The idea of monastic austerity in early Ireland | 14 |
Concepts of generosity in early modern England | 30 |
Dives and Lazarus in sixteenthcentury Ireland | 46 |
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