Elsewhere, Roper stated that no female of any age was employed in mining. It was not necessary to employ child labour as there was a surplus of adult workers. He described the “hurriers” in the collieries of Kilkenny – Queen’s County going along the narrow low passages of seldom more...
That apostrophe you see on the O of Irish surnames is an Anglicization of a “síneadh fada,” an acute accent slanting to the right.A fada above a vowel means the vowel should be pronounced “long”– which is what fada means in Irish. Fadas are often dropped in English, but in Iri...