Paperback 1987 171p. 8.60x5.90x0.60 IRELAND HISTORY 1800 TO THE 1930s. LIFE OF HARD-WORKING PEOPLE.

Old Days, Old Ways: An Illustrated Folk History of Ireland (Irish Studies)

History

Sharkey, Olive

Europe

Syracuse University Press

Old days, old ways

Black and white illustrations throughout.

OʼBrien Press

Old Days Old Ways : An Illustrated Folk History of Ireland

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Dublin : O'Brien Press

In a fast-paced, modern Ireland it can be difficult to imagine the daily lives of our nineteenth-century predecessors. However, in this book Olive Sharkey reconciles past and present with evocative descriptions of the lives, activities and material possessions of Irish people living between 1800 and the 1930s. The implements of the home, the farm, the garden and for home-crafts are recounted, with hundreds of detailed drawings in the authentic folk art style. These once familiar objects - bittles, butterworkers, noggins and truckle beds - are looked at anew in the context of the people who used them and depended on them for their livelihood.

Ways of Old: Traditional Life in Ireland

In a fast-paced, modern Ireland it can be difficult to imagine how different our lives are to those that went before. In this book Olive Sharkey lovingly describes the lives, activities and material possessions of irish people living between 1800 and the 1930s. The implements of the home, the farm, the garden and home-crafts are recounted, with detailed drawings and photographs. These once familiar objects - bittles, butterworkers, noggins and truckle beds - are explored, as we are shown a lifestyle where people made much of their own furniture and clothes, and fed themselves from their own land. Based on Olive Sharkey's&nbsp;Ways of Old, this new addition to the O'Brien 'Heritage Series' will draw the reader back to a time when people were much more tuned into the rhythm of the year and the ground beneath their feet.

Irish Country Life (O'Brien Irish Heritage)

The O'Brien Press

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