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ah...what a portrait...I am always amazed by the quality of such a photographs. beautiful!

I admire the costumes from the beginning of the 19th century !

The animal rights people would have a field day, loads of tail-less pheasants, ostriches, birds of paradise and blackcocks to adorn the hats, minks, ermines, foxes and beavers rendered naked to warm their necks and good calfskin leather for those soft bootees! Having said that this is an excellent shot, very well composed with just the one lady excised from the group (probably too much of a gossip). I'd say there was a lot of jockeying for position in that group????

Swordscookie Oh, absolutely! And I take your point about our feathered and four-legged friends. I was nearly going to add this one to our animal set: 4 Legs Good, 2 Legs Bad...

A number of the ladies are sporting AOH badges. Large groups in a small studio are all ways challenging but to also add large hats!.Mr Poole I salute you sir!.

More beauty than you can shake a stick at!! ;)

What was your wish for Camogie team before? Miss Hookeys hockey club? Did you get your wish at long last? Lovely shot of very elegant ladies. The two second and third from right at the back are sisters or I'm a monkeys uncle!

excellent picture! I like the pose of the woman holding her chin.

Débora National Library of Ireland on The Commons I wonder if she (the chin-holding woman in the front row) was channeling Rodin's The Thinker (1902)? It is really uncomfortable to sit with your elbow on the opposite thigh, like the original - try it!

beachcomber australia indeed :)

There is an announcement in the Irish Independent of Monday October 15th: MAGNER AND SMYTH—October 9, 1917, at Tramore, by the Rev. T. O'Brien, C.C., Passage-West,- William J. Magner, eldest son of John Magner, Clonmel, to Catherine (Kitty) Smyth, daughter of Mr. Edmund Smyth, Cattle Dealer, Clonmel So it may be William Magner, the original founder of Magners/Bulmers.

Sharon Corbet *shaking fist at you* Was just about to contribute exactly the same thing! I'll beat you next time... :)

Spot the differences! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000593236 The mother-in-law (Mrs Smyth?) looks happier in the other photo.

According to GRO, marriage took place at Tramore RC Church. Celebrant was Thomas O'Brien C.C. Witnesses were John Francis Magner and Mary J Smyth. William J's address was given as Mitchel Street Clonmel. Occupation Merchant.

if John Magner Snr was c.70 in this pic, it would tally with a subsequent Death record in 1926, where he was described as Hotel Proprietor aged 79