The Irish countryman
Book 1937 Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier)

Rural IrishEurope > British Isles
The materials in this book were first delivered in a course of lectures in 1936; essentially the first report on the results of the Harvard Irish Expedition. There are six lectures: interpretation of custom; countrymen at work; the family and the lan...

Family and community in Ireland
Book 1940 Arensberg, Conrad M. (Conrad Maynadier) et al.

Rural IrishEurope > British Isles
This is a social anthropological study of the community life and kinship system of small farmers in County Clare. Detail is given for the farm economy, marriage and family patterns, kinship structure, property and inheritance system, housing and sett...