10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIRING-FAIR»
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The Stalker Trilogy: 'Family ties, family strengths and weaknesses, ambition, greed loyalty and love . . . the story is compelling.' Daily Telegraph 'I would strongly recommend it to anyone with a taste for family sagas.' Scotsman
In 1890 Ireland, thirteen-year-old Sally and her younger sister, Katie, are forced to be hired girls and work for two different families when their father is killed in a fishing accident.
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Ulster Farming Families: 1930-1960
The last Ulster hiring fair was probably held at Ballycastle, County Antrim in 1947.
The disappearance of the fairs, however, did not mean the complete end of the
hiring system. As late as the 1 970s it was occasionally possible to find farms ...
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The Novels of Thomas Hardy as a Product of Nineteenth ...
Hardy refers to three fairs: the fair in Weydon-Priors where “many hundreds of
horses and sheep had been exhibited and sold”67, the sheep fair at Greenhill
and Casterbridge hiring fair. Both Weydon-Priors and Greenhill fair are described
as ...
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Daily Life in Victorian England
Annual hiring was common for the unmarried farm servants. They were often
boys and girls in their teens who received board and dormitory- style lodging plus
a very small wage. The hiring fair, sometimes called a "statute fair" or a "mop fair,"
...
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A Dictionary of English Folklore
Paul Newman's Lost Gods of Albion (1997), has up-to-date archaeology, but
includes far-fetched theories, and inaccurate assertions about mythology and
folklore. hiring fairs. Also called statute, or mop fairs, the ultimate origin of the
hiring fair ...
Jacqueline Simpson, Stephen Roud, 2000
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The History of Banbury:: Including Copious Historical and ...
The First Thursday after Old Michaelmas day (great hiring Fair)." 11. The Third
Thursday after Old Michaelmas day. 12. The Third Thursday in November. 13.
The Second Thursday before Christmas day (fat cattle fair). The benefits derived
from ...
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The Stonemasons of Creuse in Nineteenth-century Paris
One of the rare firsthand accounts is by Martin Nadaud, whose recollections of
this lieu de reunion (gathering place) show an implicit etiquette governing the
hiring fair. Older workers arrived first, while newcomers from the provinces were
at ...
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Thomas Hardy: The "dream-country" of His Fiction
He visits the hiring-fair because he needs to work to live; he is also striving to re-
integrate with the world from which his suffering has alienated him. The path is
hard. He acknowledges that he has taken chances — farming without insurance
...
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The Donegal Woman: Hired Out at Twelve. Raped and Abused. ...
Often worse. The Donegal Woman is based on the true story of the author's own grandmother.
