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THE IRISH FARMERS JOURNAL 1815
| Seller: amerinews ( 102  )
End Time: 2008-05-18 18:28:54 GMT
Bids: 4
Current Price: $15.50
Location: Newark, Nottinghamshire
Time Left: 0 Seconds |  | | For More Details: Click here | Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the POTATO FAMINE killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland
and caused another million to flee the country, many to America. Ireland was a largely rural economy, untouched by the Industrial Revolution taking hold across the Irish Sea in England and with much of its lands owned by absentee landlords.
This excellent paper is dated 30 years earlier on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1815, in a time of relative peace while England was busy fighting Napoleon and beating him at Waterloo in June. Here is a picture of life before the famine that drove people from the land. If you ever needed to know about the state of the MANGEL WURZEL in early 19th century Ireland, this is a must have newspaper. It is also a very attractive and frame-able 8-page, 3-column piece of Irish history with long articles on THE CORN LAWS, IMPROVED HUSBANDRY, and HORSE SHOE MOULDS, an. If d one of the nicest mastheads anywhere with its mottO GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH!
The final two pages have fascinating price lists for various produce as well as FAT CATTLE, COWS and HEFFERS, SHEEP and SWINE. There are also ads for PLOUGHING MATCHES - and the back page lists prices on the Dublin Market, country Markets and the Scotch Market. A wonderful insight into rural Ireland in 1815.
This paper is
held in our UK stock and thus will attract higher than usual postal
costs to the U.S. estimated at $10. To compensate for the higher
postage it will be sent to the winning bidder insured and in its own
Melinex sleeve free of charge.
PLEASE NOTE: All sales are final unless item varies from the description in some major way affecting value.
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