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The RSN workers assisted the McQueen team in combining French Chantilly lace with English Cluny lace using the Carrickmacross lace-making process, which originated in Ireland in the 1820s.
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Years ago my now deceased friend Jim Wallace, a retired tailor from Wexford town, told me about that border country, which has been immortalized in the verse "From Carrickmacross to Crossmaglen, there are more roads that honest men."
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While Crossmaglen is predominantly Catholic and situated in Northern Ireland, it lies just across the border from Carrickmacross in the Republic of Ireland.
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If they are fools enough to jump into tussore frocks and blouses with Carrickmacross lace on them before being admitted to the august presence, they will have their faces eaten off as well.
Lalage's Lovers George A. Birmingham 1907
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Hilda's is a tussore silk, frightfully sweet, and I had a blouse with a lot of Carrickmacross lace on it.
Lalage's Lovers George A. Birmingham 1907
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I have a piece of Carrickmacross lace somewhere which would make a fichu.
Love of Brothers Katharine Tynan 1896
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The circumstance suggested the idea of teaching lace-making to the poor, to a Miss Reid of Radance, near Carrickmacross.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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Many other instances might be quoted of lace industries arising out of famine times, but there are two laces which have different histories, the Carrickmacross and the Limerick.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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Limerick and Carrickmacross for lace, Shandon for the bells, Blarney and Donnybrook for the stone and the fair, Kilkenny for the cats, and
Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889
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Carrickmacross, and the historically famous pass by Magh-Rath.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 Mary Frances Cusack 1864
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A type of applique/cutwork lace worked over machine netting produced in the town of that name in County Monaghan Ireland since before the famine. Princess Diana's wedding dress had sleeves decorated with Carrickmacross lace.
May 5, 2011