Tag: Washerwoman

• The Stories of Seamus No 6

  

  Biddy At the end of the nineteenth century the only good and reliable washerwomen that existed in England were women from our own ‘Emerald Isle’. It was often said that laundresses were “two a penny”, while real washerwomen were thin on the ground and all of them were Irish. What made them so valuable was […]

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  April 14, 2021

  Article Series, Fiction, History, Ireland, Short Story

  Bag of Blue, Ireland, Servants, Tradition, Washerwoman, Washing