Spalpeens and tattie hokers: history and folklore of the Irish migratory agricultural worker in Ireland and Britain
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PREFACE v
TABLES AND FIGURES x
1 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND SOURCE CRITICISM
Temporary migration to Britain 1
Temporary migration within Ireland, 1650 1834 9
The Poor Inquiry data 15
From the 1841 census to the compilation of the
agricultural statistics in 1880 20
Temporary migration, c. 1880 1915 26
Oral communications, personal experience and hearsay 37
2 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKERS
The status of the workers 40
The names they were called 44
3 THE DIRECTIONS OF THE MOVEMENTS
The migratory workers destinations in the 1830s 57
The migratory workers destinations in 1841 66
The migratory workers destinations from 1880 1915 68
4 HIRING ARRANGEMENTS AND WORK ORGANISATION
Hiring fairs, church gates and street corners 103
The hiring method 119
Other methods of finding work 124
Organising the work 126
5 CONDITIONS IN IRELAND
Introduction 129
General disrespect shown to the workers 130
Working long hours 135
Rising the workers 139
Bedding 140
Food 143
The workers defending themselves 151
The reproached master 158
6 CONDITIONS IN GREAT BRITAIN
Introduction 163
Personal accounts and recollections 166
The tattie hokers 176
7 DISPUTES BETWEEN FARMERS AND SERVANTS
Disputes in the early nineteenth century 203
Workers leaving their employment: some
personal recollections 206
Disputes resulting in court cases 209
Cruel farmers immortalised in legends and songs 218
8 THE WORKERS REPUTATIONS AND ATTITUDES TO THEM
Bad reputations 227
The workers attitude to themselves and to
their employers 232
Good reputations 234
Not all big men reap the harvest 241
9 WAS IT ALL WORTH WHILE?
Everyone knows tisn t with any wower
a married man is going to England 248
Advantages and disadvantages of migratory labour 257
Effects on the host community 263
Benefits to the workers as individuals and to their
home communities 278
The labourers mixing and eventually settling in
the work place 298
APPENDICES
1 Questionnaires 301
2 Poor Inquiry questionnaire replies which gjve unclear
indications as to the amount of seasonal workers 306
3 The Anger Bargain 308
4 The Mower and the Hag 313
5 An Spailpin Fdnach 313
6 An Spailpin Pdighe 316
7 The Townland of the Two Suppers and
The Slated or Thatched House 317
8 A Ghriain, an raibh tu riamh ar do pha? 319
9 Ta anfomhar ag spealadh isganfear agamfos ina shut. 320
10 Getting split potatoes for food 321
11 Last Night s Porridge 323
12 Tears for a Dead Relation 323
13 Breakfast, Dinner and Supper One after the Other 323
14 The Servant Boy and the Spectacles 324
15 Maire Ni Dhuibh and her Servant Boy s Appetite 324
16 Good Food Changes Song 325
17 The Labourer and the Eggs 325
18 The worker s smartness in the courtroom 327
19 Batai scdir/Tally stick 331
20 The Rocks ofBawn 333
21 Examples of cases between employers and employees
heard at Petty Sessions courts, 1895 1915 334
22 The short or weak person as a good worker 339
23 The Insect in the Handle 343
24 The battles fought by the harvestmen in Scotland 349
25 Adventures in which the worker emerged victorious 352
26 Misunderstanding objects 363
27 Misunderstanding because of ignorance of
a foreign language 370
NOTES 379
BIBLIOGRAPHY 427
INDEX 437
Tables and Figures
TABLES
1. Birth places of those not born in the counties in which they
dwelt in 1841 21
2. Male labourers and servants by county of birth who were
not living in the county in which they dwelt during the
summer of 1841 22
3. The importance of migratory labour in the congested districts 33
4. Migratory agricultural labourers 1880 1910,
non landholders and landholders —% 42
5. Migratory agricultural labourer is 1880 1910,
landholders and the size of their holdings —% 43
6. The destinations of the Irish migratory agricultural
labourers, 1880 1910—% 70
7. Counties which had less than 100 migratory agricultural
labourers per annum between 1880 1910 72
8. The estimated number of migratory agricultural labourers
1880 1904 and the official approximation 1905 15 73
9. The poor law unions where the proportion of the migratory
agricultural labourers exceeded 10 per 1,000, 1880 1915 74
10. Hiring fairs in Ulster 104
11. Hiring markets and hiring places in Munster, Leinster
and Connaught 109
12. Classes of accommodation given to farm workers
in Scotland, 1913 15 182
FIGURES
1. Names for the workers: Spailpin 45
2. Names for the workers: Gdbog 45
3. Names for the workers: Gawthon 47
4. Names for the workers: Somachdn 47
5. Names for the workers: Gutters, Tattie hokers 49
6. Names for the workers: Harvesters, Harvestmen 49
7. Names for the workers: Scldbhai 51
8. Names for the workers: Bound tenant, Luchtfasto,
May Day boys/girls 51
9. Names for the workers: Condaes, Connachtai, Connies 53
10. Names for the workers: Culchies 53
11. Movement of significant numbers of migratory workers
in the 1830s 59
xi Spalpeens Tattie Hokers
12 43. Movement of migratory workers by parish in the 1830s 83 98
44 65. Irish migratory agricultural workers ,1880 1910 99 102
66. Hiring fairs in Ulster 117
67. Hiring markets and hiring places 117
68. Emblems worn by those waiting to be hired 120
69. Money token given when the bargain was made 120
OTHER ILLUSTRATION
1. Tally sticks 202
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