‘This silly, nasty, dirty custom’—tobacco production in Ireland

By Seán Whitney John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, in a letter from Armagh in 1769 warned his followers not to take snuff, and noted that the Irish were like ‘no other nation in Europe in such vile bondage to this silly, nasty, dirty custom’. Whether it was in the form of snuff or pipe ... Read more

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