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Picking Bilberries, Fraochans and Whorts in Ireland

€35.00

By Michael J. Conry. Hardback first edition 2011. 375 pages with photographs and illustrations

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Categories: Irish History, Local History, Memoirs Tags: bilberries, blaeberries, Carlow, fraughans, heatherberries, Lughnasa, mulberries, tipperary, Waterford, whorts, Wicklow
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This book outlines the history of wild bilberry picking in Ireland from pre-christian times to the present day and the impact it made on the lives of people. In the first half of the 20th century, considerable quantities of bilberries also known as fraughans, whorts, whinberries were picked to sell in order to feed and clothe their families. Picked to celebrate the festival of Lughnasa.

 

 

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