The Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics, and Descriptions of Scenery & Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England, with Letters from Ireland : Also "Free Trade and the League;" a Biographic History, Volume 1J. Ainsworth, 1852 - Free trade |
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Page 186
... Kilkenny I had seen several hundreds of able - bodied men seeking work at sixpence a - day ; but in Meath the wages were higher , many of those employed at haymaking having tenpence . Passing between Navan and Trim , those whom I saw at ...
... Kilkenny I had seen several hundreds of able - bodied men seeking work at sixpence a - day ; but in Meath the wages were higher , many of those employed at haymaking having tenpence . Passing between Navan and Trim , those whom I saw at ...
Page 187
... Kilkenny , that they are not ignorant of this fact ; but even where they have this knowledge , and have in their own fami- lies a sufficiency of labourers , they choose to let their land assume an appearance of poverty which it should ...
... Kilkenny , that they are not ignorant of this fact ; but even where they have this knowledge , and have in their own fami- lies a sufficiency of labourers , they choose to let their land assume an appearance of poverty which it should ...
Page 440
... KILKENNY , 27th January . Coming from Dublin to Carlow , I had day - light only for the distance of thirty - five miles . Over that space , consisting of the county of Dublin and part of Kildare , I saw no land which seemed to have been ...
... KILKENNY , 27th January . Coming from Dublin to Carlow , I had day - light only for the distance of thirty - five miles . Over that space , consisting of the county of Dublin and part of Kildare , I saw no land which seemed to have been ...
Page 441
... Kilkenny and the Suir from Tipperary , sweeps through a lovely and fertile country , passing Waterford in all the grandeur of a broad , deep , clear , mighty river , hastening to hide itself in the Atlantic Ocean , as if ashamed of ...
... Kilkenny and the Suir from Tipperary , sweeps through a lovely and fertile country , passing Waterford in all the grandeur of a broad , deep , clear , mighty river , hastening to hide itself in the Atlantic Ocean , as if ashamed of ...
Page 444
... Kilkenny , Clonmel , Waterford , Cork , and other places . Already the professional mendicants are assembling outside the door to besiege the coaches as they come . They arrive muffled up in tattered cloaks , greatcoats , and all manner ...
... Kilkenny , Clonmel , Waterford , Cork , and other places . Already the professional mendicants are assembling outside the door to besiege the coaches as they come . They arrive muffled up in tattered cloaks , greatcoats , and all manner ...
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