Irish Examiner archive offers a glimpse of Irish life a century ago

Niall Murray pores over directories and the Examiner’s own archive to discover a country that is both very familiar and yet completely different to the Ireland of today

Irish Examiner archive offers a glimpse of Irish life a century ago

WHILE today, we rightly bemoan the slow death of the Irish village, it was the nucleus of everyday life for most of rural Ireland a century ago.

It is very easy to forget when reading or viewing historical or dramatic representations of the 1916 Rising how different things were, and how those things we take for granted could not have been dreamt of back then.

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