+1.
I’d say there was a Fair of some sort coming up and Mrs Lawlor wanted to keep the pocket light in advance of it. Mrs Lawlor was some woman I’d say.
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She had to be to deal with that messer
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I have a book of photos of the Dublin tenements taken in 1913. The area behind Gardiner St, around what is now Hill St and what was then Waterford St and Tyrone St had particularly atrocious living conditions.
Sure the country lads were only up from mud huts themselves
On the contrary I’d say living standards in the country were far higher, with most of the rural poor dead, emigrated or shunted off to the tenements in Dublin after the famine and the Land Purchase schemes after creating the class of future Fine Gael voters. You’ll notice in the article the reference to the Leix men comprising mainly six footers. That should give a clue to the standard of living. Most Dubliners of the time would have been no bigger than pygmies.
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Outstanding!
The famine cleared 40% of the houses in my home place between the 1841 and 1851 census. The best of us prevailed.
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Only the stubborn cunts remained
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Them and the quislings, gombeens, souptakers and snitches and the likes also.
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I wonder what effect something like a famine has on the psychological profile of a nation. Surely only the absolutely destitute and the completely mental remained.
@ChocolateMice @Joe_Player there’s a thesis in that for ye.
One for each of them?
The book the Gene by Siddharta Mukherjee refers to research in an area of Holland where there was a famine during WW2 and found that the famine had triggered genetic changes in the offspring of the survivors. I’ve always assumed that the rates of obesity particularly among lower income groups ( who I am assuming for the most part can trace their roots to famine survivors ) are linked to the famine.
Only the fat survived?
No. The survivors offspring have a genetic predisposition to eat all round them to give some protection against a famine.
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Nonsense.
Obesity in the lower class is to do with available food and lack of education.
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Nonsense.
Obesity is all to do with being a fat pig.
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Well there goes my theory then. Sorry for even considering it, Kev, and having referenced a scientific study.
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We are only talking Kilteely here and the loss of a few mudhuts.
If we didn’t have the famine we wouldn’t have the ravenous thread.
More nonsense. You referred to 1 story from one book.
Now thats not science fella.
Is famine to blame for obesity in the UK & OZ too?
Maybe. Sure aren’t both countries full of Paddies.
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