gweedore

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!

Wow! I have never seen pictures like this before ... my-my-my, and we think we have it so-bad ... DAMN!!! Thanks much !!!!!!! 12-26-15

Terrible. Today no one knows what real poverty looks like. Embarassing for the Brittish upperclasses!

I can imagine those big families lived in very small houses with no personal space for anyone, sharing one room for many to sleep.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/94586980@N06] Campo Hubert unci_narynin Thanks for your comments, these photos are very thought evoking. I think our collection of photos does show the vast differences in lifestyle across the class divide in Ireland at the time. The ownership of productive land seems to be the main driver of these differences.

This may be the same location as the next picture with the camera turned 180º looking up the road. www.google.ie/maps/@55.0440914,-8.1941899,3a,75y,15.41h,8...

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 !

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