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  2. The Peasants - Wikipedia

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    The Peasants deals not only with the everyday life of people, but also with traditions connected with the most important Polish festivals. 1. Traditions connected with wedding and marriage: preparation for a wedding and a marriage; decoration of a dance-hall; the cutting of a bride's hair (symbolic of starting a new life)

  3. 1924 Nobel Prize in Literature - Wikipedia

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    Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont (1867–1925) wrote novels and short stories that was strongly influenced by naturalism.He is best known for Chłopi ("The Peasants", 1904–1909), a novel in four volumes that chronicles peasant life in Poland during the four seasons of the year, for which he specifically was awarded the Nobel prize.

  4. The Peasants (2023 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Peasants (Polish: Chłopi) is a 2023 adult animated historical drama film directed and written by DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman. An adaptation of Władysław Reymont 's Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same name , the film was produced using the painted animation technique similar to the pair's previous film, Loving Vincent .

  5. Peasant - Wikipedia

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    Though "peasant" is a word of loose application, once a market economy had taken root, the term peasant proprietors was frequently used to describe the traditional rural population in countries where smallholders farmed much of the land. More generally, the word "peasant" is sometimes used to refer pejoratively to those considered to be "lower ...

  6. Plantations of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Political boundaries in Ireland in 1450, before the plantations. The first Plantations of Ireland occurred during the Tudor conquest.The Dublin Castle administration intended to pacify and anglicise Irish territories controlled by the Crown and incorporate the Gaelic Irish aristocracy into the English-controlled Kingdom of Ireland by using a policy of surrender and regrant.

  7. Whiteboys - Wikipedia

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    Peasants and power: the Whiteboy movements and their control in pre-Famine Ireland (Harvester Press, 1983) Christianson, Gale E. "Secret Societies and Agrarian Violence in Ireland, 1790-1840" Agricultural History (1972): 369–384. in JSTOR; Donnelly, James S. "The Whiteboy movement, 1761-5" Irish Historical Studies (1978): 20–54. in JSTOR

  8. History of Ireland (1691–1800) - Wikipedia

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    Flag of the Kingdom of Ireland 1542 – 1801. The majority of the people of Ireland were Catholic peasants; they were very poor and largely impotent politically during the eighteenth century, as many of their leaders converted to Protestantism to avoid severe economic and political penalties.

  9. The Peasants (1973 film) - Wikipedia

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    The Peasants (Polish: Chłopi) is a Polish historical film directed by Jan Rybkowski. It was released in 1973. [1] It is based on Władysław Reymont's novel of the same name. This is a film version of the TV series Chłopi from 1972.