Working Lives. Memoirs of Rural Ireland

Article number 10224072

A collection of personal recollections documenting everyday life in rural west Limerick during the twentieth century. Interviews with local residents describe farming, traditional trades, village businesses, family relationships and community celebrations. Contributors recall the importance of blacksmiths, tailors, bakers and other local occupations, as well as dances, economic hardship and changing social conditions. Their testimonies preserve memories of communities in which neighbourly relationships and traditional ways of earning a living played a central role.