This book offers a fascinating view of many aspects of Irish rural life from the eighteenth to the mid twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 images, many of which have not been published before, the book evokes the hardships and celebrations of laborers and farmers, men and women, the old and the young as depicted in oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, postcards, and cartoons.
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Offers a view of the aspects of Irish rural life from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 images, this book evokes the hardships and celebrations of the people as depicted in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, postcards, and cartoons. It explores why Irish and foreign artists depicted rural interiors.