Bridget Barry

Parish of Ardcarne

2000-01-01 12:00:00

Famine Destitution in Ardcarne

<p>An excerpt from a letter TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST during Black 47.</p> <p>DESTITUTION IN IRELAND.<br /> Sir— Fearing that the English public is not even yet actually awakened to the evil afflicting Ireland, so as to comprehend the urgent necessity for continued relief its to meet the gaunt destitution which pervades so vast a portion, of the Irish population; and believing that while the Government arrangements are slowly progressing a large number will for want of food and an opportunity to gain food by labour be sent into premature graves, I request to be allowed to submit through your journal some documents to the public, in the hope they may be effectual in exciting, further benevolent exertions to alleviate the alarming misery.<br /> I remain, Sir, Your obedient servant,<br /> George H. Stoddart,<br /> Hon. Sec, United Relief Association.</p>

1847-04-19 12:00:00

Travelling Folk in the 1930s

<p>Between 1937 and 1939, primary school pupils across the Republic of Ireland interviewed the elderly in their neighborhood to collect and record local stories and folklore from the 19th century. "The Schools Collection" as it became known is held by the Dúchas Folklore Collection in UCD and is and has been digitized online at duchas.ie. One of the topics schoolchildren were asked to write about were "Travelling Folk" or An Lucht Siúil. </p> <p>Here is a selection of what "settled" children wrote about travelers in the late 1930s.</p>

1938-01-01 12:00:00

Ardcarne aka Crosna COOTEHALL in the 1830s

<p>A snapshot of pre-famine local history, as described in the "Topographical Dictionary of Ireland" by Samuel Lewis, 1837. (The information collected here was submitted by members of the local gentry and clergy of the time).</p>

1837-01-01 12:00:00