bog

Some of Tynan's work is rather mundane but others, such as the ploughboy, are just out of this world. I love this shot!

Somewhere around here? ... Bogview - goo.gl/maps/ijCfDnWCVu7EdUuZ8

Been there, done that. My father in law was cutting, my wife was in her bare feet in the hole tossing the turfs out and my mother in law and I were futting the turf. We were liberally doused with old perfume to keep the midges at bay. We travelled to the bog in a split screen Morris Minor.

Swordscookie Yes, it is a wonderful composition. Quite a lot to do with the classic "Rule of Thirds" (see notes) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thirds

Flickr is sometimes amazing:

I just worked out that Marconi's first wife was my Irish maternal great-grandmother's half-sister. Tuning in with interest! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483987

beachcomber australia interesting, do tell more.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Marconi's first wife Beatrice, www.thepeerage.com/p48399.htm#i483985 , was the daughter of www.thepeerage.com/p1795.htm#i17941 , whose first child by his first wife was my great-grandmother, www.thepeerage.com/p28200.htm#i281999. It's complicated - they all seem to have married several times!

This is a contemporary description of the station: The Clifden Station of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph System, from Scientific American, 23 November 1907.

beachcomber australia Got it, you have a very interesting family tree. Marconi's Mother was also Irish!

Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...

Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.

That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.

Niall McAuley John A. Coffey CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY I have some memory there were houses (is that the correct word?) very similar to this one built on farming land in early USA history? Perhaps by Irish settlers.

It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.