net-mesh

Updated: May 12, 2025

Father O'Mahony is a Corker, and should know that he is talking nonsense. Let me explain. In Cork I met a gentleman for twenty-five years engaged in supplying fishermen with all their needs. He said, "The Irish fishermen are the laziest, most provoking beggars under the sun." He showed me two sizes of net-mesh and said, "This is the size of a shilling, this is the size of a halfpenny.

Robert John Buckley - Ireland as It Is: And as It Would be Under Home Rule