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Topic	Time frame	Resource	Location
seasonal customs	1850-1950	McGarry, Marion. Irish Customs And Rituals: How our ancestors celebrated life and the seasons. ?: Orpen Press. 2020.	Ireland
Farm Life	1841-64	Diaries of James Harshaw, 6 volumes. [in R. Stanton Avery Special Collections, DA995/D6/H37/1996 microfilm]	Down, Ireland
Childhood	1950s	Illingworth, Ruth. A 1950s Irish Childhood: From Catapults to Communion Medals. Ireland: The History Press. 2018.	Ireland
Women's History	1840-1890	Holmes, Janice, and Diane Urquhart. Coming into the light: the work, politics and religion of women in Ulster, 1840-1890. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast. 1994.	Ulster
Landed Families	1860-1960	Dooley, Terence A. M. The decline of the big house in Ireland: a study of Irish landed families, 1860-1960. Dublin, Ireland: Wolfhound Press. 2001.	Ireland
Estate Life	1840-1850	Grant, Elizabeth. The Highland Lady in Ireland: Journals 1840-1850.	Ireland
Rural Life	1800s	Dorian, Hugh, Breandán Mac Suibhne, and David Dickson. The outer edge of Ulster: a memoir of social life in nineteenth-century Donegal. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press. 2001.	Donegal
Rural Life	1800s	Smyth, Alfred P., and Anthony Cogan. Faith, famine and fatherland in the Irish Midlands: perceptions of a priest and historian Anthony Cogan 1826-1872. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 1992.	Irish Midlands
Oral History		Irish Life and Lore: Recordings and Books https://www.irishlifeandlore.com/ (3,000 hours of audio recordings)	Ireland