In nineteenth-century, it was the practice of many poor tenant labourers to go to England and Scotland each year for the purpose of harvest work. They arrived in large groups at Liverpool, Bristol, or Glasgow, and walked all over the agricultural shires to find temporary employment in the service of our farmers. “They work with energy and zeal not surpassed by any English labourers, and they save what they earn“; a farmer in Northumberland recounted. The farmer thought those men lived on less than sixpence a day. And having, in a very good harvest, made perhaps £10 or £12, they crossed the Channel again, and travelled back to their native part of Ireland, and returned to their own cabins with their small treasure that they had worked so hard for.