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Alice in Ponderland

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    She has a long wikipedia page. Born in 1865, she looks an adult here, so after 1885?
  • Bernard Healy said:
    Niall McAuley There's another photograph circulating of her with Anna Johnston in which she looks quite a bit younger. Given that they were associated with each other from about 1893, I think it likely that our picture can't be much earlier than 1900, and is probably later.
  • derangedlemur said:
    The bridge looks familiar, but I can't think where I've seen it. There's rhododendrons everywhere, so that narrows it down to all of Ireland.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The notes in the catalogue state that the picture was a gift from Joseph Holloway. Mind you, it also says Joly Collection, which is from 1863.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Alice was here - Click through for details. Via Ulster History Circle And now she is resting in peace here - Via dalyjoey Drumragh Old Graveyard, not far from Omagh

Pat Ford's beetling eyebrows

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 6 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    He looks like one of those pictures of Voortrekkers you see in Pakenham's book. Probably not with a name like Pat Ford, though.
  • derangedlemur said:
    He has his own wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Ford_(journalist)
  • derangedlemur said:
    www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/blog/patrick-ford-lea...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Via Trove ...
    PATRICK FORD
    (From the "Irish World")

    Full forty years of faithful toil,
    With the spirit of the true,
    Your valiant fight for home and soil
    Will always stand to you.

    You fought the battle of the brave
    And lit the light anew;
    You fed the widow and the slave -
    The soldier brave and true.

    See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/258461022?searchTerm=%...
    (1911, two years before his death)

    Short obituary from 1913 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149810835 including -
    " ... Patrick Ford, at the time of his death, was probably the most prominent Irishman in the United States, and as proprietor and editor of the New York "'Irish World," he exerted a powerful influence among Irish-Americans. He was a man of extreme views, and in the past advocated the use of dynamite for the settlement of Anglo-Irish problems, describing it as a "blessed agent" that could not be used to better purposes than to blow up the British Empire. Of late years, however, he moderated his views considerably, and was content to secure his aims by constitutional means. ... "
  • Foxglove said:
    photo detail, his left pupil has been "burned" to enhance black, the other appears as more natural BW.
    apart from eyebrows, as frequent in 19thoC male portraits - long ("filter feeding") moustaches were popular.
    maybe it helped to hide bad teeth?

Blessed among women...

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons