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" Whether it was good for sales or bad for sales did n't matter to me , " Reicin testified Friday morning . He could see also in the picture-glass the little glancings of light from the bevels and facets of the objects about the mirror and candle . Catholic Emancipation movement of the 1820s , the potato famine of the 1840s , the land wars of the 1870s , the Home Rule movement that began in the 1880s - - alongside the literature that defined the Irish to themselves and to the English . It was passing , in fairly regular sweeps , from a point rather more than five feet from the ground , in a direction roughly vertical , to another point a few inches below the level of the chest of drawers . Audiences in even the most fashionable theatres included members of every class , from aristocrats and financiers , to businessmen and professionals , to shopkeepers , clerks , and artisans , to servants and laborers . Over the course of the semester , we will examine major political and social developments - - the Catholic Emancipation movement of the 1820s , the potato famine of the 1840s , the land wars of the 1870s , the Home Rule movement that began in the 1880s - - alongside the literature that defined the Irish to themselves and to the English .