Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — Marriage in Ireland. [ARTICLE]

Marriage in Ireland.

Marriage in Ireland among the farming classes is conducted on very much the same scale as that of crowned heads; a curious fact scarcely “understanded of the people” in England. These marriages are arranged and brought to a satisfactory conclusion without reference to the two most concerned, the bride and bridegroom apparently being the last to be consulted as to the advisability of a matter that has to do with their whole life's happiness. The fathers and mothers on both sides settle all, preliminaries. There is no love making between the young folks; they do not evea see each other as a rule until everything - is arranged, he being in this part d the barony, she in that, and time for “lovers' dalliance” in seed time and i harvest being nil.—N. Y. Sun.