Irish people, Irish linen

Introduction: Irish linen and the Irish diaspora : fabrics spanning water / Brian Lambkin

The people and the place

A long way from field to finish by hand

Domestic life and factory work grow side by side

Irish linen as cargo and coverings on land, sea, and air

A social experiment in two mill villages

Famine for the poor, lace for the rich

Linenopolis leads the industrialization of Irish linen

Smoothing out the wrinkles... or not

Bright white and crisply starched : the linen shirt

Marketing Irish linen worldwide

An enduring legacy

No end in sight.