2006-12-19 21:35:22 · 10 answers · asked by civ16 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
"The difficulties which had prevented a fishing industry from developing in Ireland remained; the poverty of the county, the want of proper boats, the remoteness from a market, the dangers of the 'tremendous coast' in the west. In many places trawling was declared to be impossible, owing to the rocky and foul nature of the sea bottom; in others- for part of the season the fishermen had to row twenty-five miles to the fishing -grounds; the weather was unreliable, and small boats, curraghs especially, laden with their catch were difficult to bring in when a squall blew up. Fish-curing stations could not operate economically when the supply of fish was not regular, nor did it prove easy to dispose of finished product; a number of stations had cured fish left on their hands."
From http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlker/famfish.html
2006-12-19 23:21:45 · answer #1 · answered by meg 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
you may keep in mind that eire of the 1840s develop into an entire diverse international. human beings had no longer some thing, they weren't even allowed to personal the houses they lived in. Any market in any respect there develop into owned by technique of the minority community the Protestants, lots of whom were Anglo-Irish or English. So in case you've been a Catholic peasant in eire contained in the 1840s, you've been really ******. You had NO RIGHTS. A fishing market may were merely beautiful! in spite of the undeniable fact that it does no longer were Irish-owned, because the interior sight Irish ought to no longer personal some thing less than the guidelines of the country that governed them. This develop into between the justifications why it develop into idea that rule from England develop into undesirable for eire. I propose you examine up somewhat more beneficial on Irish history and tell your self about the precedence then.
2016-11-27 22:05:37 · answer #2 · answered by kulpa 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's a big island.
In the centre of Ireland, you can be as far as 40 miles from the sea. You can bet that the Landowners protected the inshore fishing rights with a rod of iron too.
2006-12-19 22:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by efes_haze 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because (a) most of them didn't have fishing boats, nets, skills etc; (b) You can't live just on fish; and (c) an awful lot of Ireland is too far inland for the inhabitants to have easily got to the sea in the days before the car was invented.
2006-12-19 21:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by gvih2g2 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because the main problem was NOT finding food. Food was scarce and starvation was real, but the main problem was that the (English) landlords still demanded rent despite the failure of the staple crop.
Even if tenants where able to find a supply of fish to feed themselves, it would not have helped them pay the rent to the landlord, and they would still have been thrown off the land.
Without land they could not produce food.
2006-12-19 21:54:11 · answer #5 · answered by Corneilius 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
because fish don't contain the carbohydrate that people need, in Ireland at that time potatoes were the main source of carbohydrate, not bread as it is now.
2006-12-19 22:18:01 · answer #6 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let them eat cake,eh.
2006-12-19 21:47:06 · answer #7 · answered by pageys 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Because dey was tick!! And I am allowed to say that as I am Irish!
2006-12-19 21:47:43 · answer #8 · answered by sharon m 3 · 1⤊ 5⤋
because they were farmers not fisher men!!!!
2006-12-19 21:41:09 · answer #9 · answered by **SARAH** 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh your going to upset alot of people with that one!!!!!!!funny though.
2006-12-19 21:43:19 · answer #10 · answered by karen. 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋