JOURNAL OF THE IRISH LABOUR HISTORY SOCIETY

THE DECLINE AND FALL OF DONNYBROOK FAIR 19such festivities as Donnybrook, but at the same time would have altered the composition of the skilledworking class itself, tilting the balance towards literacy, rationality and respectability, leaving the morepIebian working class to 'wrestle with the mountain men'.Notes1. Freeman's Journal, 25 August, 1819.2. Rory O'Reilly, stonecutter (Charles O'Flaherty), Retrospection, Dublin 1824, pp. 81-83,86.3. The Warder, 30 August, 1823, citing Saunders' Newsletter.,. . "4. L. O'Dea, 'The Fair of Donnybrook', Dublin Historical Record, xv, 1 October, 1953, 11-20; M .. Gorevan,'Donnybrook', in Dublin Historical Record .. xvii, 3 June 1962, pp. 106-125; R.J. Kelly, 'Donnybrook; originof name; its famous fair' ,Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, xliv, I, 1919, pp. 136-148.E. Malcolm, 'Popular recreation in nineteenth century Ireland' in O. MacDOnagh, W.F. Mandle & P. Travers(eds), Irish Culture and Nationalism, 1750-1950, (London, 1983), pp. 40-55._5. State Paper Office ofIreland, Official Papers, 1832/531: Clerk of Peace to Sir William Gossett, 9 February,1832, enclosing return by John & Peter Madden to Clerk of the Peace, 29 June, 1818. (Hereafter cited as SPOI.~P): In 1818 there was a charge of sixpence per horse sold, four pence per head of cattle, one penny per headof sheep, while stalls or standings paid from three to six pence. . .6. J. Barrington, Personal sketches of his own times, 3 vols,( London, 1932), iii. pp. 230-259.7. The fun and games were so pronounced in 1751 that the Lord Mayor, sheriffs and their constables had to goout to Donnybrook to pull down the tents and booths because of trouble between those ancient rival gangs ofDubliri, the Ormonde and the Liberty Boys. See Dublin Weekly Journal, 25 August, 1751. Fifteen years laterthe sheriff and his constables in a convoy of twenty five cars went out from the city to clear DOnnybrook FairGreen and restore order. See Freeman's Journal, 3 f August-3 September, 1765. (Hereafter cited FJ).8. P.J. McCall, 'Zozirnus', Dublin Historical Record, vii, 4, Sept-Nov, 1945, p. 147.9. Barrington, op.cit., ii.p. 239.10. The Warder, 30 August 1823, citing Saunders' Newsletter.11. S.c. & A.M. Hall, Ireland, its scenery and character, 3 vols, (London 1841), i. pp. 332-345.12. NU, Ms. 4497, Diary ofWilliam Woodlock, 25 August, 1845.13. FJ ,23 August, 1854. . . .14. Hely Dutton, Observations on Mr. Archer's Statist ical Survey of the County of Dublin, (Dublin 1802), pp. 56-57. .15. O'Dea, loc.cit., pp. 15-16.. .16. SPOI, OP /1837/377 & 1838/148, WilIiam Hodges to Lord Morpeth, 13 December, 1838.17. ibid., 183/148, Thomas Drummond to WiIIiam Hodges, 15 February, 1839~18. FJ, 15 May; 1855. .19. ibid., 17 May, 1855.20. ibid., 21 May, 1855 ..21. ibid., 21 May, 1855; the parish priest explained that 'so convinced have I been of the evil consequences of thisannually recurring intrusion upon the morality and quiet of this parish that since my appointment to it I havefelt it my duty to strictly prohibit those under my spiritual jurisdiction frequenting that scene of vice' .22. ibid., 29 May, 1855. . .23. ibid., 2,9, 14 June, 1855.24. ibid., 14 June, 1855.25. ibid., 22 June, 1855.26. SPO!, Chief Crown Solicitor's Papers, 1859/79. (Hereafter cited as SPOI, CCS):27. FJ, 13 August, 1855.28. ibid., 20 August, 1855.29. ibid., 25 August, 1855.30. ibid., 23 August, 1855.31. ibid., 15 August, 1855.32. SPOI, ChiejSecretary's Office Registered Papers, 1859179 (Hereafter cited SPOT, CSORP); Thom's DublinDir'ectory jor the year 1885.33. FJ, 25 August, 1855.34. NU, Ms. 7577, LarcomPapers, J.D. Fitzgerald to Thomas Larcom, 16 February, 1856.35. SPOI, CCS, 1859179, Case to advise proceedings to prevent a repetition of the holding of a Fair at