Orlaith McBride

But in urban areas, yeah, we're really beginning to see that.

Like, for example, you're seeing not only employment, but also migration patterns rolled into one in terms of just a census line.

So you might have a young girl who was born in Ballina.

She's living in a tenement house in Marlborough Street and she's working as a domestic servant in a big house in Rathmine.

So there are three or four different

pieces of information in her one line on the form.

But we're also then beginning to see through the employment piece, social mobility.

So Cormac O'Grada and his and Muscari and Kerry, he has a Jeremiah Lyons.

And in the 1901 census, he's a shopkeeper.

In the 1911 census, he's a grocer.

And then by 1926, he's describing himself as a merchant.

And he's obviously his own employer.

But then you'll begin to see who else in that town is employed by Jeremiah Lyons.

So you're beginning to understand the economics of a local town.

You can also see it, for example, with the institutions.

and how important the institutions are in terms of, particularly in rural communities, in terms of being an employer.

So, for example, Georgina Larraghy's about St.

Phelan's in Cavan.

So there's a girl, Susan Dempsey, who's a maid and she's employed by St.

Phelan's in Cavan.