**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

This thorough and engaging social history of Ireland offers new insights into the ways in which ordinary people lived during this dramatic moment in Ireland’s history from 1800-1914. To Victorian visitors, Ireland was a world of extremes – luxurious country houses to one-room mud cabins (in 1841 40% of Irish housing was the latter). It covers wide range of aspects of everyday lives: from work on the many wealthy country estates to grinding poverty in the towns. It covers the transformative effects of the railway development and Ireland’s first tourist boom.