18th-19th Century Social Perspectives

‘Famine pots’

Sir,—Hundreds of large boilers (‘Famine pots’) were brought into Ireland by the Quakers during the 1840s. Many of those have survived. I am looking for information and/or pictures of Famine pots for a forthcoming documentary. All sources will be acknowledged.—Yours etc., MATTIE LENNON Kylebeg Lacken Blessington Co. Wicklow mattielennon@gmail.com

Categories 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, 18th–19th - Century History, Issue 3 May/June2013, Letters, The Famine, Volume 21

Great Famine

Sir,—I read with interest Robert Ballagh’s review of the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (HI 21.2, March/April 2013, ‘Big book’), in particular the reference to Milton Friedman. While researching a short biography of Terence Bellew McManus many years ago I came across the following sentence in an editorial of the London Times during the … Read more

Categories 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, 18th–19th - Century History, Feature Article, Issue 3 May/June2013, Letters, The Famine, Volume 21

Tobacco-growing in Ireland

Sir,—Regarding the article on ‘Death and taxes: tobacco-growing in Ireland’ by Gearóid Ó Faoleán (HI 21.2, March/April 2013), which was most interesting, it may be of interest to your readers that the cultivation of tobacco was not confined specifically to the east coast. At the turn of the twentieth century and during the First World … Read more

Categories 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, 18th–19th - Century History, 20th Century Social Perspectives, 20th-century / Contemporary History, Feature Article, Issue 3 May/June2013, Letters, Volume 21

Revisiting the ghosts of Duffy’s Cut

John Ruddy was allegedly murdered or died of cholera in the US in 1832, at the age of eighteen. He had been one of 57 young men from counties Donegal, Tyrone and Derry who had been employed in 1832 by Philip Duffy, an Irish-American contractor, to lay railroad tracks in Pennsylvania for the Philadelphia … Read more

Categories 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, 18th–19th - Century History, Editorial, Issue 3 May/June2013, Volume 21

Most vicious and refractory girls’the reformatories at Ballinasloe and Monaghan

**‘Ulster Reformatory School for Catholic Girls, Monaghan’—originally Spark’s Lake brewery, purchased for the St Louis nuns by Charles Bianconi. (St Louis convent archive, Monaghan)**

On 2 July 1883, fifteen-year-old Bridget Carroll arrived at the Spark’s Lake reformatory in Monaghan to serve the remainder of a sentence that had been imposed on her four years earlier. She had been tried at Loughrea petty sessions in September 1879 on a charge that she ‘Did threaten to stab Anne Flynn’. She was found guilty and sentenced to a short term of imprisonment, followed by five years in a reformatory in Ballinasloe. This reformatory, which had been her home for nearly four years, was now closing, and she had made the long journey to Monaghan to serve out her sentence under the supervision of the St Louis sisters.

Categories 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, 18th–19th - Century History, Features, General, Issue 2 (March/April 2013), Volume 21

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