Pantry - wouldn't that be a seperate room for food storage? Only the rich had that.

un garde-manger - I saw a photo online, I've never seen that before.

All houses had a "drisiúr" (dresser), with or without glass. Rare nowadays.
We call "cupboard" a "preas" (press).

Drisiúr -

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Interesting how English usage differs as well. In the part of the U.S. where I grew up, "dresser" was another word for a chest of drawers used to store clothing in your bedroom (most likely originally from "dressing table," which was a chest of drawers with a mirror and a place to sit to do your hair and makeup, though when I was young we applied it to any chest of drawers in the bedroom). Your dresser I would have called a "china cabinet" or "sideboard" (my great aunt Clara had one that looked just like the one in the picture!). And I'm not certain (couldn't find a picture), but I think "garde manger" is what they used to call a "pie safe" here back in pre-refrigeration days.

And don't get me started on sofa/couch/davenport/daveno!

Redwolf

From what Franc described I think this is the garde-manger


We have dressing tables too, exactly like you described Redwolf. I don't know if that word came from Americans coming home or would we have that word for it anyhow. We did for a while say "side-walk" when I was young when footpaths were new to us.In those days before multi-media/tv etc native speakers got their English words from different sources. I have a relative who lived a while in America and she called the dressing table a "bureau". We assumed that was American usage, but maybe it wasn't.

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Yep...I'd call that a "pie safe" or a "pie chest." I think that's mostly southern usage. In the south, people used them to keep flies and other nasty insects off pies. In fact, there's a popular southern pie, "chess pie," that is so named because, unlike most similar pies, it has enough sugar content to keep it from spoiling when kept out..."chess" is a corruption of "chest."

You'll hear "bureau" in the U.S. as well. A lot of these usages were regional originally, but as people have become more mobile, they've migrated too.

"Pantry" is one that varies a bit from region to region as well. I grew up thinking of a "pantry" as something like a cold cellar or root cellar (it's what my grandmother called the room in her basement where she stored the canned goods she put up, and the root vegetables from the garden). It's also sometimes used for a larger cabinet in the kitchen, or for a separate room off the kitchen where dishes and such are kept.

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Yes a Bhríd - that's it - wouldn't they have had something like that ?

I never saw them before. Possibly the richer houses had them alright.

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Well in France that's what poor people had as well the more wealthier. Dála an scéil - THE book that I would recommend as a reference book on this subject is 'Irish Rural Interiors in Art' by Claudia Kinmouth, published by Yale University Press, but you can read it on-line. Some of the vocabulary is even given in Irish, but it is typically the kind of book that should really be available in Irish - perhaps Cois Life or Four Courts might get round to publishing it some time in the future.
How did they keep their food - in a basket on the table to the side of the room or on the floor or hanging down from a nail ?

We called it a setee (as well as sofa or couch). We also had a china cabinet.

Utility room is indeed seomra fóntais according to a number of sources. You'll also see seomra áise in some textbooks (but should the genitive singular be used at all? - it's a bit like the stad an bhus/stad na mbusanna argument).

Perhaps fochistin could be used too depending on what the room is used for.

Then there's seomra fearas (genitive plural) which I've seen used too.