Mayo, commemorating an actual walk of starving Irish peasants in 1848.

The Irish peasants are the only poor men in these islands who have forced their masters to disgorge.

Irish peasants from all over Connacht rushed to join them.

Allowing the Irish peasants to buy land - did the government think they would be satisfied with just that?

Both were tall beefy men with the heavy, strong-boned features of the Irish peasant.

She is a "buxom Irish peasant", in her early twenties with red cheeks, black hair and blue eyes.

Derogatory term for an Irishman particularly an Irish peasant.

Like an Irish peasant as her cousin's wife?

It centres on the troubled romance between an English tourist and a local Irish peasant.

In 1845, Irish peasants were very poor, and Catholics like my antecedents could only rent land, not buy it.