Similar themes also run throughout John B. Keane's "The Bodhran Makers".
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Quoting Ruth Sherry <[log in to unmask]>:
> In An Only Child (1963), Frank O'Connor comments on the social distinction
> between '"hatties" and "shawlies"--the poorest of the poor' during his
> childhood in Cork (1903-ca.1917). He hated to see his mother in a shawl,
> and the photgraph of her (with him as an infant on her lap) which is the
> frontispiece for the book, shows her in a hat. But when times got rough
> because of his father's drinking, she might wrap herself up in a shawl when
> she went to get drink for him (a better option than letting him go to the
> pub himself). She could hide in the shawl and would not be readily
> identifiable to the neighbours.
>
> The brief passage is in the first chapter of the book.
> Ruth Sherry
>
> At 08:51 18.05.2005 +0930, you wrote:
> >If anyone has done any study on Irish women's dress in the nineteenth
> >century, I would appreciate some feedback on the apparently strange sight
> >of Irish women in South Australia in 1845 ' without bonnets and their
> >cloaks thrown over their heads'.
> >Slán
> >
> >Dymphna
>
> Ruth Sherry
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