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Bessbrook and Its Linen Mills: A Short Narrative of a Model Temperance Town

Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing), 1820-1898· 2 chapters· 8,020 words

THAT the times in which we live are out of joint is a truism too obvious to require comment. As much now as in old days the cry is, “Who will show us any good?” We hear much of modern progress; but there are many who, like Mr. Froude, intimate that what we call progress is in...

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Let me now speak of its origin. The concern has been in active operation about a quarter of a century. An estate of six thousand acres belonging to an Irish nobleman was in the...

1. Part 1

THAT the times in which we live are out of joint is a truism too obvious to require comment. As much now as in old days the cry is, “Who will show us any good?” We hear much of...