1827, Assistant Sought for Respectable Linen and Woollen Establishment Must Speak the Irish language.

At the time there were probably around 4 million people in Ireland who either spoke or understood Irish some of them affluent. It is unusual to see such an advertisement.

Amhlaoimh Ó Suilleabháin, Linen Merchant, Killarney/Callan, South Kilkenny:

South Kilkenny school Building Progmamme 1790, Cinn-Lae Amhlaoimh Uí Shuilleabháin, Diary of Humphret O’Sullivan 1780-1837

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