charity

Background history, including this image - www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2021/0617/1228495-photography-irela...

Streetview (??), by the church on the right, and the house on the left - maps.app.goo.gl/oQwBP1goonNEQWvb7

The church was replaced in 1920, but on the same spot, so beachcomber australia's streetview is still good.

Via Trove -

THE SUFFERING POOR AT CARRAROE. The Rev. John Healy, P.P., Carraroe, Connemarra, County Galway, appeals to readers of the 'Catholic Times' for assistance for the suffering poor of his parish. He writes : — ' Unless I am to see my people die of hunger before my eyes, I cannot do otherwise than appeal to tho public on their behalf. Furthermore, unless help is speedily forthcoming many of my poor flock will be beyond the reach of it. All the world knows Indian meal gruel, even if there be plenty of it, is not food on which a working man or woman will thrive, but not many of the people here can afford more than one meal per day of this food, while if a potato or other food, no matter how scanty, was to be found in the possession of any family there was no hope of any Government relief for them. When all resources were exhausted the Government relieved about two hundred families to the extent of Is. per family per day. Nothing has been done for the remaining seven hundred families whose condition is exactly similar to those who obtain this pittance. On behalf of those seven hundred families I have no alternative but to appeal to the charity and humanity of readers of the 'Catholic Times.' I am confident they will not see my poor people die of hunger while they can spare a trifle to relieve them.

See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104495620?searchTerm=c... April 1898

In the 1901 census, here is Patrick Munnelly, Overseer Works Congested Districts Board.

Another Bain/LOC photo connected with the Salvation Army's 1913 Christmas Dinner campaign in New York City:

The people in this photo seem rather well-to-do, to be getting a dinner from the Salvation Army. Maybe they're delivering?

I think you may be right. I also wonder about that grim fortress in the background. Could it be a prison? Or perhaps an armory? (I don't know NYC.)

I think that's the old 244th Coast Artillery Armory, which according to nysonglines.com was "oppressive" and located at 125 14th St. , next door to what was then the 14th St. Theater (on the right in the photo) -- it used to be the Lyceum Theater. Both buildings were demolished, and the McBurney YMCA is now on the old Armory site. The Salvation Army headquarters is and was just down the street. (The internet is like magic sometimes.)

Thanks, rjones. You're a fast operator!

What is it they're all holding up?

I don't see many girls . . .

The bloke in the middle looks like the devil incarnate! What a creepy dude!

I was thinking of something "silly" to write. But instead could only see the niceties of the event. Great image, the boys could be holding a bag of sweets?

i fear for them if those men are their 'supervisers'. Shifty lot.