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'Unwearied Investigations and Interminable Correspondence': The Churches and Clerical Work in Improving Housing Conditions for Irish Migratory Potato Workers in Scotland.

'Unwearied Investigations and Interminable Correspondence': The Churches and Clerical Work in... 'Unwearied Investigations and Interminable Correspondence': The Churches and Clerical Work in Improving Housing Conditionsfor Irish Migratory Potato Workers in Scotland.1 Heather Holmes post-famine years of the mid nineteenth century until the late number of groups of Irish migratory seasonal workers were 1980s, employed in Lowland districts of Scotland to undertake agricultural activities. The first, whose migration ended shortly after World War Two, was the Donegal workers, males from Donegal and north-west Ireland who undertook general work such as weeding and harvesting crops. This was the largest of all the groups of Irish seasonal agricultural workers employed in Scotland. The second was workers, largely from Mayo and Donegal, arranged into squads or groups, for weeding and picking fruit crops, primarily in Lanarkshire and Perthshire. The third was the 'tattie howkers' or potato harvesters employed to harvest the potato crop in south-western and central Scotland. As a group of between 1,500 and 2,000 workers, it continued its employment at a time when seasonal employment to other tasks completely died out, and into the late 1980s. Of all the groups, it also had the most specialist work patterns and greatest group identity of any of the seasonal migrants. Workers were largely http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Scottish Historical Studies Edinburgh University Press

'Unwearied Investigations and Interminable Correspondence': The Churches and Clerical Work in Improving Housing Conditions for Irish Migratory Potato Workers in Scotland.

Holmes, Heather
Journal of Scottish Historical Studies , Volume 20 (1): 31 – Jan 1, 2000
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'Unwearied Investigations and Interminable Correspondence': The Churches and Clerical Work in Improving Housing Conditionsfor Irish Migratory Potato Workers in Scotland.1 Heather Holmes post-famine years of the mid nineteenth century until the late number of groups of Irish migratory seasonal workers were 1980s, employed in Lowland districts of Scotland to undertake agricultural activities. The first, whose migration ended shortly after World War Two, was the Donegal workers, males from Donegal and north-west Ireland who undertook general work such as weeding and harvesting crops. This was the largest of all the groups of Irish seasonal agricultural workers employed in Scotland. The second was workers, largely from Mayo and Donegal, arranged into squads or groups, for weeding and picking fruit crops, primarily in Lanarkshire and Perthshire. The third was the 'tattie howkers' or potato harvesters employed to harvest the potato crop in south-western and central Scotland. As a group of between 1,500 and 2,000 workers, it continued its employment at a time when seasonal employment to other tasks completely died out, and into the late 1980s. Of all the groups, it also had the most specialist work patterns and greatest group identity of any of the seasonal migrants. Workers were largely

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Published: Jan 1, 2000

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