Everyday Life in 19th Century Ireland

by Ian Maxwell

To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes--luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841, forty percent 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845887433
• ISBN13: 9781845887438
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Thp Ireland
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"