The representation of Irish hospitality in this novel is very unusually.  In English novels, especially during the Victorian period, women pride themselves and showing hospitality to those who comes to visit, but it doesn't even compare to Irish hospitality.  Throughout the novel hospitality is given to everyone in need of it, no matter what class you are from.  If peasants needed a warm meal or a place to rest the Castle at Inismore was always open to those who needed it.  Also when Horatio hurt himself he was given a place to rest, food, and the attention of the nurse, who was very capable of helping him regain his health.  They family at Inismore adopted him into the family without question.  The only thing he could not do was eat at the Prince's table, but not even the Prince's wife could eat at the table when she was alive.  When Horatio was traveling through Ireland he was always greatly gracious and given lodging by those who did not have enough to feed their families let alone a stranger.  On the trip to Ulster Father John explained to Horatio that in irish tradition family lines meant a lot.  they were welcome in the house of strangers because they had common ancestors.  The priest says, "We shall sleep to-night at the hospitable mansion of a true-born Milesian, to whom I have the honour to be distantly allied; and where you will find the old Brehon law which forbids that a sept should suddenly break up lest the traveler should be disappointed of the expected feast, was no fabrication of national partiality" (Owenson 180).  The Irish people are always willing to share even if they do not have a lot.