‘Every delicacy of the season’—conspicuous consumption during the Great Hunger

Regattas and horse-racing, flower shows and fashion, balls and banquets where the tables groaned under the weight of the sumptuous repast are the unlikely topics of this article related to the years of the Great Hunger. By Edmund O’Riordan Regattas According to the official report in the Cork Examiner in September 1846, the assemblage of ... Read more

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