Talk:Spailpín

Doubtful source attribution

The article states that "a spailpín [...] was an itinerant or seasonal farmworker in Ireland from the 17th to the early 21st century with the title being personified by Shane O’Neil, a ballybrown man", and the Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (page 442, Volume 1, 2004) is cited as the source for this. However, the referred article of the Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture doesn't mention either the 17th century nor the 21st century. It stretches further back in time ("Although there is some evidence that Irish farm laborers were already traveling to Britain in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, their numbers increased only with population pressures in Ireland during the second half of the eighteenth century"), but it only goes so far as to mention the early to mid 20th century. Also, there is absolutely no trace of any Shane O’Neil "personifying the title" in the cited source. Bati (talk) 13:04, 19 September 2022 (UTC)