This is the ninth and final of the Irish chapters from Harry A Franck's 1932 book, 'Footloose in the British Isles' .  You can see my introduction to these chapters here:  https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/11/foot-loose-in-british-isles-by-harry.html I see that he adds a little controversy for our English friends in the final sentence!  ;-)  There were a few extra pictures a few pages further on in the book, which I have included at the end of the text.

This is the sixth of the Irish chapters from Harry A Franck's 1932 book, 'Footloose in the British Isles' .  You can see my introduction to these chapters here:  https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/11/foot-loose-in-british-isles-by-harry.html

This is the fifth of the Irish chapters from Harry A Franck's 1932 book, 'Footloose in the British Isles' .  You can see my introduction to these chapters here:  https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/11/foot-loose-in-british-isles-by-harry.html

This is the third of the Irish chapters from Harry A Franck's 1932 book, 'Footloose in the British Isles' .  You can see my introduction to these chapters here:  https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/11/foot-loose-in-british-isles-by-harry.html

This is the second of the Irish chapters from Harry A Franck's 1932 book, 'Footloose in the British Isles' .  You can see my introduction to these chapters here:  https://oldandireland.blogspot.com/2019/11/foot-loose-in-british-isles-by-harry.html _______________________________

The following scans are from a book called ‘ Foot-Loose in the British Isles’ by a traveler called Harry A. Franck. First published in 1932, it shows Ireland at a time when the two new states were still finding their identity, while also dealing with the financial consequences of the great depression.   In his career, he travelled to a good proportion of the world’s continents.   His exploits are well worth reading, even though they display many of the more repressive attitudes prevalent at the time (as you will see on the first page of these scans).   Get past this, and you will find an intelligently written, entertaining snapshot of our little island, in a time now long gone.   Many of his books are available free on Project Guttenberg ( https://www.gutenberg.org/ ).   Look up Harry’s entry on Wikipedia; he led an interesting life. I will post these scans by chapter over the next few weeks as I get time to process them.   Since I will use Harry’s ch...