Excerpts from an interview with Patrick O’ Brien about country life in the first half of the twentieth century. For this interview's catalogue entry click here

Excerpt 1: Changes in working in the bog to cut turf.

Excerpt 2: Going to Cattle markets and fairs in Rathkeel and Listowel.

Excerpt 3: Bigger fairs in Listowel the dealing in cattle.

Excerpt 4: Employment, hiring fairs and working conditions for farm labourers.

Excerpt 5: Farming conditions during the 2nd world war.

Excerpt 6: First radio in Ballyhall West Limerick.

Excerpt 7: Newspapers in the late 1920s and early 30s.

Excerpt 8: Entertainment, card plying, gambles in the 1930s.

Excerpt 9: Going on the wren. Christmas Day and St Stephen's Day.

Excerpt 10: Slate roofs and Thatching.

Excerpt 11: Flagstone Floors, Mud Floors and cement.

Excerpt 12: Foodways and a goose for Christmas in the 1910s and 20s.

Excerpt 13: Foodways: killing and butchering pigs.

11/06/1981

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