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From: "Jane Lyons" <>
Subject: Arctic Ireland
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 19:48:29 -0000

'On the last day of 1739, Ireland awoke to find itself in the grip of what
was in effect a mini Ice Age.
Rivers froze, mills seized up and houses could not be heated above frezingh
point. It was as if nature had gone a little crazy. Many were enchanted by
the novelty of it all.Carnivals, dances andsheep-roastings were held on the
ice.

But the euphoria proved fleeting. In its wake came an almost biblical
ordeal by drought, flood, fire, famine and plague, that has few parallels in
the recorded history of this island.'

The above from the cover of a book 'Arctic Ireland' written by David Dickson
a senior lecturer of Modern history in Trinity College, Dublin.

ISBN1 870132 85 8
Published by The White Row press Ltd.,
135 Cumberland Rd., Dundonald,
Belfast
BT16 OBB

First published 1997

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