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In the wake of the wars of conquest of the 17th century, completely deforested of timber for export (usually for the Royal Navy) and for a temporary iron industry in the course of the 17th century, Irish estates turned to the export of salt beef, pork, butter, and hard cheese through the slaughterhouse and port city of Cork, which supplied England, the British navy and the sugar islands of the ...
One of the things that make this volume incredibly useful,' asserts David Fleming in Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, 'is the detailed, thematic index that draws each object together, allowing for comparison across the houses.' [11] Marie Boran praises the general index in her review in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; "a mammoth ...
Pages in category "18th century in Ireland" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
In the 18th century English trade with Ireland was the most important branch of English overseas trade 1. Absentee landlords drew off some £800,000 p.a. in farm rents in the early part of the century, rising to £1 million, in an economy that amounted to about £4 million.
National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 ('N' rate) 8: Coggalbeg gold hoard: 2300–2000 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 (SOAR) 9: Bronze Age funerary pots: 1900–1300 BC: National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology: Set 1, 2017 (SOAR) 10: Tara torcs: c. 1200 BC: National Museum of Ireland ...
Some of the most expensive are French and German 18th century examples, and the record auction price for a German box is £789,250 (about US$1.3 million), bid in 2003 at Christie's in London. Modern snuff boxes are made from a variety of woods, pewter and even plastic and are manufactured in surprising numbers due, largely, to snuff's ...
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On 2 April 1761, a force of 50 militiamen and 40 soldiers set out for Tallow, County Waterford, "where they took (mostly in their beds) eleven Levellers, against whom Information on Oath was given". Other raids took 17 Whiteboys west of Bruff , in County Limerick and by mid-April at least 150 suspected Whiteboys had been arrested.