Excerpts from an interview with Timmy Kennedy about Moonlighters For this interview's catalogue entry click here

Description

Excerpt 1: Farmers paying a bailiff to put pressure on tenants not to pay their rent

Excerpt 2: Tenants had no power before the moonlighters

Excerpt 3: Bigger farmers would grab the land of smaller farmers who couldn't pay the rent

Excerpt 4: Moonlighters hiding valuables from landlords

Excerpt 5: An evicted family spent a few days on the road and is able to move back in after coming up with rent

Excerpt 6: A protestant family resists for five weeks

Excerpt 7: Famous moonlighters being chased by peelers, hiding in and escaping from safe house

Excerpt 8: Moonlighters raiding the farm of a tenant who paid his rent

Date

1988

Identifier

UCCFEA_SR00004_WAVC

Citation

“Excerpts from an interview with Timmy Kennedy about Moonlighters For this interview's catalogue entry click here,” UCCFEA, accessed December 12, 2024, https://epu.ucc.ie/folklore/items/show/431.