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This is a true account of what life was really like for the tattie howker. The story tells of hardships endured by potato workers in Scotland in the 1950s and beyond. It refers to customs and beliefs, also how they lived together as one large group for the duration of the harvesting season. They were firmly at the bottom of the social scale, and often referred to sarcastically as "The Tattie Howkers." The story is real in that it tells of the ...

Annie O'Donnell left Ireland for America in 1898. one of 15, 175 Irish women who left that year, most of them going into domestic service. On the boat to America she became friends with Jim Phelan. a 22-year-old farmer who had run away from home to join his uncle in Indianapolis. Annie went to work as a children's nurse for the W. L. Mellon family of Pittsburgh. Her letters to Jim Phelan, published for the first time, are a unique contribution...