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For those areas and classes which they cover, Irish directories
are an excellent source, often supplying information not readily
available elsewhere. Their most obvious and practical use is
to find out where precisely, in the larger towns, a family lived.
But for members of the gentry, and the professional, merchant
and trading classes, they can show much more, providing indirect
evidence of reversals of fortune or growing prosperity, of death
and emigration.
In many cases, directory entries are the only precise indication
of occupation. The only classes totally excluded from all directories
are, once again, the most disadvantaged, small tenant farmers,
landless labourers and servants. Virtually all classes other
than these are at least partly included, in some of the nineteenth
century directories in particular. One point to be kept in mind
when using any directory is that every entry is at least six
months out of date by the time of publication.
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