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Online Release of 1901 Census
The news that the 1901 census has been released online will come as good news to some of Ireland’s huge diaspora – considered to be somewhere in the region of about 80 million – more than 14 times the size of our population. However it will also come in handy for members of this site who may be trying to track down the history of their cottage.Read more -
New Logo for Cottageology
New Cottageology Logo I hope you all like the new logo and banner for Cottageology! It was time the blog got a little bit of a spring clean…Read more -
The Wexford Thatcher – review
‘The Wexford Thatcher’ episode from the Hands series is a tale of thatching in the South East of Ireland, taking the us right through from the harvesting of the straw to Paddy Casey the master thatcher applying his craft.Read more -
Hands Series
I was delighted recently to obtain a copy of the fantastic box set ‘Hands’. It is one series that I have been talking about for years and was always on the look out for. If anyone hasn’t seen this series on RTÉ then you are in for a treat. It is a collection of 37 documentaries produced by Sally and David Shaw-Smith for RTÉ – “A series of fascinating documentaries on traditional Irish crafts and lifestyles, where the emphasis is on the skills of human hands rather than on machines”.Read more -
Reasons to love Ireland – Soda Bread
One thing I really missed when I was living in the US was good old fashioned soda bread. There was never a shortage of it in our house – every Saturday morning after the cleaning was done my mother would start the baking – soda bread, curney loaf and maybe queen and butterfly cakes if we were good! That smell in the house – of clean and baking is one of the most enduring memories of my childhood.Read more
