connemara

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Down the old bog road

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Looks like between Maam and Leenaun somewhere...
  • John A. Coffey said:
    Very sad photograph, hopefully they were living in the little cottage down the road.
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    That was how the poor lived. It is their home made of sod and thatched roof.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    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.
  • Robin Parkes said:
    It surely looks like a sod house. A grim way of life.

Making baskets on the rocks

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    Presumably this pointy mountain, so now we just need the right angle: goo.gl/maps/f3ECuW4zHAZiv79M6
  • derangedlemur said:
    This looks like a good candidate: bit.ly/3bKyv8f goo.gl/maps/7zxbakRJmQgUTG9j6
  • derangedlemur said:
    From History of the Commercial and Financial Relations between England and Ireland from the Period of the Restoration: Basket-work is carried on as a cottage industry in several places in the west and south of Ireland; at Letterfrack, in Connemara, the industry is especially flourishing. There is no doubt that one great way to improve the condition of agricultural Ireland is the development of these cottage and art industries. With the exception of the home-spun woollen industry and the lace-making industry they are still on a small scale, but taken in the bulk they give a good deal of subsidiary employment, and there is reason to believe that before long they will increase greatly.
  • derangedlemur said:
    From The Englishwoman's Review of Social and Industrial Questions: 1898: Ms Sturge has issued a notice to customers of the basket industry, which she has so successfully planted and nurtured in Connemara, that an expert in basket work is now in charge of the industry, and all orders are to be henceforth addressed to the Manager, Connemara Basket Industry, Letterfrack, Galway
  • derangedlemur said:
    As with every improvement in the country, it was the Quakers: connemarawest.ie/product/sophia-sturge-and-the-connemara-...

The High and the Almighty

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons