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The Linen Industry in 18th century Ulster
Bill Crawford explains how, at the time of Plantation, estate-owning landlords sought paying tenants on their land so as to make an income from their lands.
In order to pay their rents, former cattle-farming tenants developed new skills in the burgeoning linen cottage industry. (Broadcast: 10th Mar 1992)
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