Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland

Download or read book Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland written by Dr Ian Maxwell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 incarcerated entire families behind forbidding walls. Religious divisions, educational boycotts, customs and superstitions.