Why Irish literature needs to let the navvies into the Big House
Updated / Friday, 5 Feb 2021
06:53
Opinion: it s timely to re-assess the contribution agricultural labourers have made to Irish literature both directly and indirectly
Between the Famine and the establishment of the Free State, land reform and changes in agriculture dramatically transformed rural Ireland.This transformation impacted most on the landlord class and on those whose principle means of support involved selling their labour on farms or other agricultural operations.
The number of landless agricultural labourers in Ireland fell sharply as a result of the Famine itself and continued to drop as grazing increasingly displaced a more labour-intensive tillage farming in the latter half of the 19th century. Some casual rural workers were still selling their labour in hiring fairs in Donegal and elsewhere well into the 20th century, but in the post-Famine period long-term emigration was one of the few viable op
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