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WOW!!! What a lovely photograph of the mother and her son. I could look at that all day and marvel at the image. A poet in his finery with the loving mother by his side, dressed in their day to day clothes and posing for the gentleman/woman with the camera. Look at the hat on the ground, at the weather beaten skin on their faces and hands, the long strong fingers of the man and the well worn shoes on the pair of them? Magic!

Swordscookie And her wedding ring has become very loose on her fingers as they've shrunk with age... Did check to see if we have a copy of that poem in our collections, but if we do, it's not individually catalogued. Maybe in our collections of street poems and ballads.

On Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Brigid's_Well it says that a wandering poet once wrote - "On St Brigid’s Eve, as night fell, My mother and I went to Saint Brigid’s Well, Where the candles do burn and the great walls do shine on the graves of the dead and the vaults of O’Brien" Could those be the words of our Poet friend above? It would be great to find out and get the entire text.

great old photography ...

Swordscookie Wouldn't that be amazing?

I love this picture.

The children all look happy. What a great family portrait.

What happy faces!

The only Morrisseys in John's hill in 1911 are in the return of idiots and lunatics in institutions. There's a Thomas Morrissey in Convent Hill - an unemployed tailor aged 22.

derangedlemur I wonder if he might have worked at the Asylum?

This photo depicts Jefferson Monroe Levy (1852-1924), who owned Thomas Jefferson's house and farm, Monticello, from 1879 until 1923. He was a New York attorney who served three terms in the House of Representatives. J.M. Levy had (after many complications) acquired Monticello from the estate of his uncle, U.S. Naval Commodore Uriah Phillips Levy, who had bought it in 1836. A brief history of the Levys' work to preserve Monticello can be read on this page at Monticello.org. The page has links to a couple of other pages about the Levys.

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