Industrial Dublin Since 1698 the Silk Industry in Dublin Two Essays
Industrial Dublin Since 1698 the Silk Industry in Dublin Two Essays
John Joseph Webb
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The Census Returns of 1841 show that a * This number seems to be overstated. In reply to queries submitted to the trade it was stated that, in 1814, 380 to 390 persons were employed. In 1834 this number had fallen to no or 120. The Leather Industry 95 considerable number of people found employ- ment in Dublin in the various branches of the leather industry. According to that census there were then in Dublin 83 skinners, 319 tanners, 143 curriers, 59 leather dressers, 101 brogue makers, 248 sadd...lers and 5, 650 boot and shoemakers a grand total of 6, 603. (There is a large and unaccountable discrepancy between the number of boot and shoemakers and that already quoted. ) In the evidence given by Mr. Parkinson, who had been Secretary to the Dublin Exhibition of 1 861, before the Irish Industries Com- mission in 1885, he states that there had been a rapid decline in the tanning industry during the last few years. The English tanning pro- cess then occupied only four months, whereas the Irish process (the method of tanning by bark being chiefly used) occupied no less than twelve months.
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