Hi all,
A good book on clothes is Anne O'Dowd's 'Common Clothes and
Clothing 1860-1930' (Dublin 1990).
Aoife
> Similar themes also run throughout John B. Keane's "The
> Bodhran Makers". Avril
>
> Avril Tobin
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> University of Edinburgh
> Sociology
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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
> > Professor of English Literature
> > Department of Modern Languages/Institutt for moderne
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> > Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU)
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> >
> >
Dr Aoife Bhreatnach
IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Modern History
NUI Maynooth
Co Kildare
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