lismorecastle

Isn't it a remarkable photograph? Privilege, position, power, personality, perfectly posed, peerlessly photographed, posterity perpetuated! (that was a struggle!!!) It is a really interesting photograph of a different era and a remarkable family. The family resemblances are distinctive, the elegance is definitive but the groom looks less than enthusiastic. Quite a lot of leg on display for that era, rather risque?

Bellísima fotografía de tiempos pasados, la composición y pose de los personajes soberbia!!!!Excelente el comentario de swordscookie!

классно!

Aleksandr Sukhov спасибо!

It was the jazz age, and a glimpse of stocking was no longer shocking...evidently even in Waterford, at least among the swells.

In 2nd May 1904 King Edward visited Waterford. He travelled from Dun Laoghaire, County Dublin via Kilkenny, arriving at Waterford North Station at 12:50 p.m. The station was decorated in crimson and a salute was fired by the HMS Aeolus, which was stationed in the river along three other ships. The King was entertained by the mayor James A. Power at a reception in City Hall. The Royal party then visited the Waterford Show. The Royal party proceeded to the Waterford South Station to take the 16:05p.m train to Lismore. Before departing the King knighted the Mayor on the platform. The King then took the train to Lismore where he was greeted by the Duke of Devonshire and other dignitaries.

OS 25" link at GeoHive

Here is a portrait of the Duke, looks like him far right.

The castle is still owned by the Dukes of Devonshire.

Here is the Duke again in the nli archive fishing, with the castle in the distance.

Really fishy is right. Some really bad scraping and scratching. You're probably right about it being the Blackwater. There's another Poole where Lismore Castle is in the background. The nearest Google go is the nearby N72 where I think we see the same sloping hill in the distance. Streetview Somewhere here maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,605227,598959,11,9

8th was Duke from 1891-1908. 9th from March 1908-1936 10th from 1938-1950. 11th from 1950-2004

I think the gent with the rod and beard is Spencer Compton Cavendish, the 8th Duke, so 1901-1908. Early use of photoshop to add a fish that was "this big".

Niall McAuley Are all fishermen liars or do all liars fish?

His Dukeship was patron of "Lismore College" in 1901-1905, William Wright was headmaster.

Couldn't find Lady Louisa on Wikipedia. Her father's and her husband's pages mention her as Lady Louisa Caroline. From this page I gather there was a part of the Munster Blackwater, that her father was responsible for (see entry under: Lismore Weir 1898). Jan Hilbrand Brink.

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Lady Louisa: www.thepeerage.com/p997.htm artuk.org/discover/artworks/lady-louisa-caroline-cavendis...

The bridge in "Circa 1910" - www.waterfordmuseum.ie/exhibit/web/DisplayImage/K0mLp7dWl...

"An interpretation board [on Lady Louisa's Walk] provides some history of Lady Louisa Cavendish. Eldest child of the 7th Duke of Devonshire, when her mother died in 1840 at age 28, Louisa, then only 14, took over the running of the household. A lover of nature and walking, she improved the gardens and created many trails along the Blackwater, some of which have since been subsumed by nature." From - www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/walk-of-the-week...