Constance Bushe and mackerelsalting in West Cork
By Fintan Lane At an art auction in Skibbereen last year I acquired a small watercolour painting (14cm x 12cm) that is a useful visual source for the working lives of fishing communities in nineteenth-century coastal West Cork. Inscribed underneath is the title: ‘Mackerel industry, Castletownshend, Co. Cork, Ireland, salting fish’. The painting probably dates … Read more