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Journal of Design History 2001 14(3):167-185; doi:10.1093/jdh/14.3.167
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Rags and Rushes: Art and the Irish Artefact, c.1900

Claudia Kinmonth

Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College


  Abstract

This paper examines aspect of the lives and material culture of the Irish peasantry between 1880 and 1920 Within an interdisciplinary framework,based on a foundation of work on Irish vernacular furniture ,it combines a variety of sources from art history,photography,ethnography and travel writing to postcards and poetry The relative rehability of evidence from foreign visitors versus the native Irish is assessed Areas of social and marterial culture,such as the ‘stage Irishman’ ,racism,why women didn't wear shoes,why boys were dressed as girls and the pre-arrangement of rural marnage,become toucnstones fot the analysis of myths and relatives perpetuated through contemporary sources.

Key Words: Ireland • Vernacular • furniture • derss • postcards • marriage,arranged


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