Vivienne Pollock and I used a photograph from the Ulster Museum of a School
for lacemaking etc. set up by the Congested Districts Board for young girls
in Donegal c1900.
in Image and Experience: Photographs of Irishwomen c1880-1920, p. 117
Myrtle Hill
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From: "Aoife Bhreatnach" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: Irish girls making lace
> In Charles P Crane's memoir of his time as an RM just before
> independence, he talks about lace-making in Donegal.
> Interesting because he contends that cash was not earned for
> lace and that middle men were exploiting women by offering
> payment in kind.
>
> Don't know if that helps!
>
> Aoife
>
> > I am interested in resources about girls (ages 6 - 20) in
> > Ireland making lace to earn money to get families out of
> > workhouses and/or paying passage to emigrate. Girls
> > making lace to help during famine?
> > Basic idea is young lacemakers as heroes. Photos,
> > stories, documents.
> >
> > More basic info about lacemaking in Ireland still welcomed
> > , too.
> >
> >
> > Diane Swanson
> > Independent Scholar
>
> Dr Aoife Bhreatnach
> IRCHSS Post-Doctoral Fellow
> Department of Modern History
> NUI Maynooth
> Co Kildare
>
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