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FROM 1870 - 1914 > BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS
 
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  A Fashionable Wedding
This photograph records the wedding which united two of Ulster’s wealthiest families. Thomas Andrews, a Harland & Wolff director, was ...
 
  Wedding Group
This wedding group photo taken early in the 20th century is evidence of a strange custom. The group photo includes the driver who is ...
 
  Country Wedding
This photograph shows a group of boys wearing straw costumes escorting the bride to the church. There are 6 strawboys in the photograph.
 
  Temperance March
Opposition to the production and sale of alcohol was very powerful around the turn of the century. The temperance movement organised ...
 
  Feast Days
Drinking alcohol played an important part in many of Ireland’s feast days and folk festivals. Whiskey was readily available and poteen, ...
 
  Open Air Service
Many churches were keen to preach the gospel to those people who did not attend church on a regular basis. The photograph shows an open ...
 
  Open Air Mass
Holding mass in the open air had been widely practised by Catholics during the penal restrictions of the 18th century and this tradition ...
 
  Choir Outing
The Church was the main organiser of social events during this period. This photograph taken around 1900 shows the choir of a Portadown ...
 
  The Sabbath Day
This was a popular rhyme from the late 19th century which gives some indication of just how strictly Sundays were observed. Children ...
 
  Sunday School Outing
For some children the only outing of the year was the Sunday School excursion. Sometimes they went to seaside resorts like Portrush or ...
 
 
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