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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: !! Connaught Journal; Nov 27, 1823; Peasantry of Galway
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 17:36:59 -0500


The Connaught Journal
Galway, Thursday, November 27, 1823

PEASANTRY OF IRELAND
The First Report of the British and Irish Ladies' Society, for improving the
Condition and promoting the Industry and Welfare of the Female Peasantry of
Ireland.


GALWAY
Three district committees have been formed in Galway. One at Galway,
one at Ballinasloe, and one at Loughrea.
The following communication will shew that with good management much
benefit may accrue from the most trifling sums of money:
"The grant of £2 made by your committee for the purpose of purchasing
flax-seed was mot fortunate; had I had the least idea that so small a sum
would have done any thing, I should have commenced long ago, but I was so
ignorant on the subject that I thought it would require a great sum of money
to attempt any thing of the kind. The happiness of so materially benefiting
our poor was reserved for your Society. I sent round the county to tell the
people to prepare their ground, and sent for a hogshead of flax-seed, which
I expect to-morrow, to be distributed the day after at five-pence a pottle,
that is something more than half the price the retailers sell it for, and
any who cannot afford to pay so much, are bound to return the value in spun
yarn in the autumn."



HIGH SHERIFF- The Gentlemen named as eligible for the Office of High Sheriff
of the County of Galway are-
John Eyre, of Eyrecourt Castle
Dudley Persse, of Roxborough- and
Robert Ffrench, junr, of Monivea, Esqrs.

MRS. NICOLAS'
BOARDING-SCHOOL, GALWAY.
Mrs. Nicolas, (late Miss Daly) grateful for the encouragement hitherto
afforded her by a generous public, hopes by her exertions for the
improvement of her pupils, together with the constant attention of MR.
NICOLAS to the French department, to merit a continuance of their favour.
She then begs to remark that this School possesses advantages not held out
by any similar Establishment in the Province.
Middle-street, Nov. 27, 1823.


Cathy Joynt Labath
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