FROM 1830 - 1860 > BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS                 1-10 11-20 21-30                 Fairy Thorns In rural areas most people believed in fairies. These fairies were rumoured to live around Fairy Thorn trees and farmers never cut them ...     Banshee Rural people were frightened of the Banshee. It was believed to appear before unsuspecting people and cry out. People who experienced ...     Holy Well This photograph, taken in May 1912, captures a scene that was common earlier in the century. It shows Doon Well in Co. Donegal, where ...     A Fine Wake Before the Famine, death was ‘celebrated’ with a wake designed to send the deceased into the next world. This 1841 sketch shows women ...     Mourning Jewellery Mourning jewellery came into fashion in the mid 19th century. On the death of a husband or father women wore black clothes and various ...     Open Air Mass This sketch of some 400 people attending an open air mass at Kilbaha beach in 1857 gives us some indication of the devotion of the ...     McKinney’s Headstone This headstone from the Friar’s Bush cemetery in Belfast has a number of very usually carvings, commemorating the Catholic struggle ...     Souperism During the Famine years Protestants tried to convert the Catholic poor in some areas of the south and west. This was known as ...     Rev Henry Cooke Rev Henry Cooke was a high profile Ulster Presbyterian minister with a great interest in politics. In 1834 he addressed a crowd of ...     Christening Gown Even poor people believed it was important to have their children christened. These children’s christening gowns could be expensive so ...     <>               1-10 11-20 21-30