SPALPEENS AND TATTIE HOKERS. HISTORY AND FOLKLORE OF THE IRISH MIGRATORY AGRICULTURAL WORKER IN IRELAND AND BRITAIN

(Dublin, Ireland):Irish Academic Press. (1991). 1st edition. xi+441pp. Hardcover with dust jacket.  A very good clean copy inside and out with a very good dust jacket.  *"This book traces the entire history of these seasonal and migratory movements of Irish farm workers in the British Isles. Most of the published sources for the early part of the period are government documents, but in this work Dr. O'Dowd draws extensively on the rich manuscripts sources in University College Dublin's Department of Irish Folklore: these vividly  illustrate the conditions the workers endured, the work they did, the attitudes to them etc.  This book, in effect, is a treasure trove of oral tradition."...dj