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Parade of 30,000 Orangemen - Floods of Rain and Oratory

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 23 older comments, and then…
• DannyM8 said:

  Given its the "Weekly News" perhaps it is not taken on the day? (just to be persnickety)

• DannyM8 said:

  www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001561167/ Edward Wm Mack - Photographer Not there in 1901

• DannyM8 said:

  www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001561165/ Matthew Gettenby in 1911 - Manufacturer Draper in 1901 and correct spelling!

• billh35 said:

  At the time Larne had a booming incoming tourist trade as it was the gateway to the Glens of Antrim and with a variety of hotels. People from Belfast would go to Larne by train for days out but also there would be visitors on the ferries from Scotland on day trips - Stranraer was only 2 1/2 hours away. This explains the "Irish Souvenir Warehouse" branding which was aimed primarily at Scottish visitors.

• DannyM8 said:

  Welch's Irish Views. The Robert Welch photographs in Birmingham Central Library form part of the Sir Benjamin Stone Collection; acquired by Benjamin Stone between 1904 and 1906. Archives and Heritage Service hold more than 400 of his photos. Robert Welch, born in 1859, had a photographic studio in Belfast. Though he never married he had many friends who spoke of his helpfulness and generosity, he was described as a 'friend to all the world'. He died in 1936. Robert Welch travelled all over Ireland taking photos of the people and their way of life; he advertised himself as an 'ethnographer'. As a commercial photographer, he sold copies to many different organisations. His photos were used as postcards, as illustrations for travel books, and to accompany scientific lectures www.birmingham.gov.uk/cs/Satellite?c=Page&childpagena...