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Print the legend

In 1864 a horse called ‘Biddy Early’ in a race at Scariff refused a jump, unseating its rider. This was typical of the type of story recorded by Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory when she visited Feakle some twenty years after Biddy’s death. Her book Visions and beliefs in the west of Ireland was published in … Read more

Categories 18th–19th - Century History, Features, Issue 1(Jan/Feb 2012), Volume 20

A life of hardship

Bridget (Biddy) Early was born in 1798 in the townland of Lower Faha, Co. Clare, the only child of John Thomas Connors and Ellen Early, at a time of bloody revolution. Her family lived in poverty, with her mother making clothes spun from flax grown in the fields nearby. The threat of eviction was ever-present. … Read more

Categories 18th-19th Century Social Perspectives, 18th–19th - Century History, Features, Issue 1(Jan/Feb 2012), Volume 20

Many’s the slip . . .

One of the most perversely inventive punishments was handed out to John Walker for the theft of a comrade’s coat. He was taken to the gallows and had a rope put around his neck, which was drawn so tightly that he had to stand on tiptoes. In that precarious posture he received twenty lashes in … Read more

Categories 18th–19th - Century History, Features, Issue 1(Jan/Feb 2012), Volume 20

The case for ‘noble studies’

The nobility of Tudor Ireland are important because the nobility were key agents of change in this revolutionary period. The movement among the English of Ireland for the political ‘reformation’ of their land during the reign of Henry VIII was essentially the product of hostility between the peerage and the gentry. Without it, the Kildare … Read more

Categories Early Modern History (1500–1700), Features, Issue 1(Jan/Feb 2012), Volume 20

Cork City Library

Cork was the first of Ireland’s cities to adopt the Public Libraries Act in the mid-nineteenth century. The city’s main library was housed in a variety of locations between 1892 and 1930, but when Corkonians think of the ‘City Library’ they think of the landmark building on the Grand Parade, opened in September 1930. The … Read more

Categories 18th–19th - Century History, 20th-century / Contemporary History, Features, Issue 1(Jan/Feb 2012), Volume 20
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