gweedore

Gweedore.Court Hotel goo.gl/maps/fZJbDRCZeWDNfuuC6 Now much extended?

Those chimney pots do not look bird-friendly. Ouch!

Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser - Wednesday 26 July 1876


"I'll have a room with a cold bath, please!"

sundial, Gweedore......first silly smile if the week !

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2010 via Brian Deeney

According to www.historyireland.com/18th-19th-century-history/notice-t..., this is an evicted family, ca. 1887. The same family: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000043129

Amazing. Powerful image. Bare feet there too. There must have been tough as nails.

Here are some newspaper reports on the Gweedore evictions from the Derry Journal. From looking at the list of people at the bottom, there's a chance that this is "Daniel O'Donnell, wife and 3 small children, Knockastolar - evicted".

B-59 There's a second megazoomable (but reversed) version available. (Attributed to Mason, again).

While this abode is made of the most basic materials available nonetheless it is a well constructed shelter with a window and a bothán for the animals presumably out the back!

It looks like an incomplete attempt to airbrush the sky on the negative? Was the image being prepared for publication somewhere?

Bill Bartlett Bill, this shot is not your typical Lawrence capture, it is possible that it was taken on behalf of some publication or other. We do come across early efforts at photo-shopping quite often, Have a close look at the W in Waterford in this photo.

I am not sure if we have had this before but, Tríd an Lionsa translates as Through the Lens

while in Ireland (port islington) in 1962 visiting family friends I visited living in converted cow sheds waiting for council homes to be built, you could knock on the grocers door at 10pm after coming out of the pub for a loaf of bread, I was 10 years old drinking beer in the pub