A sad-looking line of fine hard-working mining men who got £3.5 shillings for those men's families to live on for a full week, nowadays a cup of coffee would cost you £3.5 shillings. Those were hard and brutal times, with not many jobs on offer and very poor wages and yet you hear some people say those were the good old days, Those were the days when working men had to leave their wives and their children behind and go to work in foreign lands to earn some money and send it home every week and yet take care of their own selfs.
that is true, if you were not a small farmer them your life was extra rough, hard times so many had to emigrate and become foreigners and may not have been treated that well
These men were tough. Real men.
They’re probably all dead now. May they rest in peace.🇮🇪🙏
Not all thankfully, one died in 2017 and still a few alive today.
Men of Steel coughed up and spite out abandoned
A sad-looking line of fine hard-working mining men who got £3.5 shillings for those men's families to live on for a full week, nowadays a cup of coffee would cost you £3.5 shillings. Those were hard and brutal times, with not many jobs on offer and very poor wages and yet you hear some people say those were the good old days, Those were the days when working men had to leave their wives and their children behind and go to work in foreign lands to earn some money and send it home every week and yet take care of their own selfs.
Ireland was a tough place to live in those days
that is true, if you were not a small farmer them your life was extra rough, hard times so many had to emigrate and become foreigners and may not have been treated that well
A similar fait for Ballingarry a few years later. I grew up in the Ardagh Hills at that time and it was devastating
No "working from home" for these fellas!
Best Of Coal In That Mine , still Ready by
To go. ,
Comer is soooooo different now
very hard times back then but l think is was a much happier time
Yeah they all look delighted to be queueing up for bread and lads with destroyed lungs. Nostalgic nonsense
Good Lord, what was the average age of an Irish miner? 67?
A job for life. New blood only came in when old blood retired.
Aged from hard work
Bill wasn't very sympathetic 😮
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