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4 Part Ii. Needuework V. Domestic Servic...
was The not senior the and princi greater pal assistance of these two in this needlework proceeding manufactures 1 . Sewed
muslin , though in action since 1822 , had not taken this effect on the community until the industrial impetus of 1850 begun its
fermentation in the social body ; and even then , it was not in the ranks of its workers that the migratory spirit manifested itself in
the greatest degree . Ulster became the seat of its development , and the section of the population least under the influence of
that tendency engaged in it the most extensively . In this province , the preponderance of the Scotch Saxons , or
Presby-Notwithstanding terians , over the 1 its Celt larger s , subdued number the of peop propensit le and y greater a good -wealth deal .
, the _projDortion of emigration was only 16 * 71 per cent , in it , while in _funster , where the mass of inhabitants is more unmixedly Celticit
, was 23 * 17 . The districts in which this movement was strongest were those in which the lace trade was most active . Whether
these facts have any connexion or not , they are co-incident , and worthy of heing taken into account in the consideration of Irish
characteristics . From Cork , the greatest field of this employmenta large number
of crochet-workers emigrated , their own earnings , supplying them with the means . In the schools , the girls , though suffering extreme
privations , frequently hoarded their money for this object , and while saving it in too small sums to be received in banks , entrusted
it to the ladies who provided A . them with this trade . A letter was lately received by one of these from Americatelling of the easy
, circumstances of the writer , a pupil in the Adelaide School eight years ago , and stating in illustrationthat she is u rich enough
, now to dress better than her former patronesses . " Mrs . Hand , of Clones , greatly encouraged the saving habitand much of the money
, so accumulated was used for emigration . The hindrances of ignorance and poverty - are much greater in
the south than in the north of Ireland , and any success there is worth more in testifying what Irish women can do . Besides
emigrating , hy this means , they have done other and more wonderful acts . There is evidence to showthatstruggling with
every disadvantage , many have attained , a good , step up in the "World through its help .
Carrigaline , Coachford , and Cloyne , purely agricultural localities , derived some valuable assistance from this employment , though
it cannot be said of any of them , as it may of Clones , that the crochet harvest was only second in importance to the grain crop .
Of the 12 , 000 workers at this lace in the area including Cork city , suburbsdependencies , and neighboring towns , at least one-half
, were of the class which lives upon provision contributed either bylaw or private charity . Several can now be found earning
comfortable livings who rose from this condition . A few of the best hands at this business in Cork are from these ranks , and so
