The Rise of the Irish Linen Industry
Author: Conrad Gill
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Conrad Gill
Publisher: Oxford, Clarendon
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 406
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. H. Crawford
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781903688373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The domestic linen industry left an indelible imprint on Ulster history. It was introduced by colonists from the north of England in the 17th century, before the arrival of the Huguenots, and encouraged by the landlords to improve their rentals. Earnings from raising flax, spinning yarn and weaving cloth, provided farming families with regular incomes that enabled them to lease small farms and improve marginal land. Continual improvements by Ulster bleachers in the finishing of linens secured for them control of the industry, focussing its development. Exports to Britain first through Dublin and then direct to Liverpool and London, created a merchant class and underpinned the development of Belfast and the provincial market towns. By 1800 Ulster was reckoned to be the most prosperous province in Ireland. It was also the most densely peopled with a population of two million in 1821, almost equal to that of Scotland.
Author: Kevin Kenny
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998-02-12
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0198026625
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, author Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside. Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration.
Author: ROSE JANE. LESLIE
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Published: 2018
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ISBN-13: 9781840338287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Eilis Brennan
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Published: 1988-01-01
Total Pages: 55
ISBN-13: 9780902588332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andy Bielenberg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-05-07
Total Pages: 427
ISBN-13: 1134061005
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph provides the first comprehensive analysis of industrial development in Ireland and its impact on Irish society between 1801-1922. Studies of Irish industrial history to date have been regionally focused or industry specific. The book addresses this problem by bringing together the economic and social dimensions of Irish industrial history during the Union between Ireland and Great Britain. In this period, British economic and political influences on Ireland were all pervasive, particularly in the industrial sphere as a consequence of the British industrial revolution. By making the Irish industrial story more relevant to a wider national and international audience and by adopting a more multi-disciplinary approach which challenges many of the received wisdoms derived from narrow regional or single industry studies - this book will be of interest to economic historians across the globe as well as all those interested in Irish history more generally.
Author: Liam Kennedy
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780719018275
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Alan McCutcheon
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 0838631258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major study of the growth and decline of transport and industry in Ulster, this extremely detailed and comprehensive book throws new light on the infrastructure of corn grinding, spade forging, paper making, and other industries, and examines the mechanics of early road, bridge, and canal construction, more than 850 photographs and charts are contained in this volume.