To Leave the Land So as Not to Leave the Land: The Religious Motivations of Seasonal Migrants, Including Women, in the Twentieth Century

This chapter seeks to answer the question as to why, even though subsistence conditions militated against continuing to eke out an existence on unproductive holdings, many inhabitants in Ireland’s western counties did just that. Particularly in the west of Ireland, Irish women and men found ways to...

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Published in:	Religions
Main Author:	E. Moore Quinn
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2023-02-01
Subjects:	Ireland Roman Catholicism seasonal migrant workers vernacular religion implicit religion expressive cultural forms
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/2/258