Pig Fair Pig fairs were held in most towns and villages before the Famine. They always attracted large, boisterous crowds. This illustration is ...
Fish Market Rural dwellers made the journey to towns on market days to buy fresh fish. Women often haggled over prices.
Famine Fever, Workhouse Each workhouse had an infirmary which housed those suffering from famine fever or typhus.
This was caused by lice which lived on the ...
Hurling Until the Gaelic Athletic Association was founded in 1884, neighbouring parishes organised challenge matches with each other. There ...
Election Meeting Elections in Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s were boisterous affairs. Election meetings drew large crowds and they were often associated ...
Donnybrook Fair Fair days drew large crowds. Farmers sold livestock and bought goods such as pottery. Donnybrook Fair attracted huge crowds, many of ...
Monasteries The early medieval monasteries were rather like a village in that they contained, within their walls, all the buildings which are ...
Villages In the middle ages most people lived in villages. These had grown up around the lord’s manor. Each village had the lord’s manor house at ...
Towns Towns had been rare in Ireland before the Plantations. The coming of the English and the fact that many of the planters felt insecure ...
Tara and Assemblies Ireland was divided into provincial kingdoms known as tuatha. Each one was ruled by a king or Ri chosen at an assembly by the men of the ...
