Irish’ Mouse Traps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5970208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Drummond (0000-0002-7324-4992), David C Drummond (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 54-62 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folk Life (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0430-8778 • E-ISSN: 1759-670X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/043087796798254470 |
| OpenAlex | W1982675281 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Today in Britain small blocks of wood with a noose suspended in each of several holes are not uncommon objects of interest in Folk Museums. For several centuries they were in everyday use to catch house mice, but curiously during this period there seems to have been no general term available in Britain with which to describe them. We shall therefore adopt here the long-used American name of ‘choker mouse trap’ which graphically reflects their mode of action.However, in the early nineteenth century when mouse traps were beginning to be mass produced and described in hardware and ironmongers' catalogues, the English cataloguers adopted the name ‘Irish’, presumably to distinguish choker mouse traps from the other types of mouse traps that they advertised
Aesthetics · Art · Genealogy · Geography · Irish · Linguistics · Literature · Meteorology · Period (music · Trap (plumbing · Animal and Plant Science Education · History · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Philosophy · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |