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Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council Yarrabah, a former Aboriginal mission settlement, is a community governed by an Aboriginal Council, 15 km east of Cairns at Cape Grafton. The mission was founded by John Gribble in 1892. Gribble, formerly a minister in the Methodist and Congregational Churches in Victoria had prior experience with Aboriginal missions both there and in Western Australia. In 1883 Gribble had been ordained an Anglican priest, and mostly on his own initiative journeyed to Cairns and obtained approval from the colonial government to set up a mission on land eventually proclaimed as a reserve. Few Aborigines sought sanctuary there for the first two years, by then Gribble departed because of ill health, and the management of the mission passed to his son Edward, who became an Anglican minister in 1898, the year that St Alban's church at Yarrabah was dedicated. The settlement was under Anglican Church management until 1960 when the Department of Native Affairs assumed control. In 1904 the Fraser Island people were moved to Yarrabah, over 1000 km away. The population probably numbered several hundred, as in 1902 there were 93 pupils at the Yarrabah school. In 1915 mission records showed 322 'native population', whereas census figures were half this number. Anglican authorities encouraged marriages and settlement at the mission and forbade the marriage of so-called full-blood women to whites or aliens. In 1903 Yarrabah, known as Cape Grafton, was described in the Australian handbook Source: queenslandplaces.com.au/yarrabah-aboriginal-shire-council

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

Probably the Church of Ireland church in Ahascragh, Co Galway - see other photos in the Clonbrock Collection: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000521356 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000522606 But it does not compare well to others photos which are suggested to be the same church after damage/restoration in the 1920s: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000523074 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000523073 Was the 1922-26 restoration that extensive?

Since the photograph (CLON162) of St Catherine's in Ahascragh (as it was decorated for a wedding in 1905) shows transepts on both sides, and the current image shows only one transept (to the right), then one could suggest pre-1905 for this image.

The south transept was apparently added in 1865: www.dia.ie/works/view/3546/building/CO.+GALWAY%2C+AHASCRA... So this image dates to between the construction of the south transept (right) in 1865 and a photo from 1905 showing a north transept (left). Knowing when the north transept was built would help to narrow the date range further.

Damaged by fire in 1922, it was rebuilt under the supervision of Richard Orpen and it was re-opened in 1926. from the NIAH

He was Archbishop from December 1940 to 1973 so this was either 1940 or early in 1941? A lot of prelates in this one.

Swordscookie Wikipedia claims 27 December 1940.

There is a description of the consecration in John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland by John Cooney. From that I think that the woman in the first row on the right (after all the clergy) is the then Lord Mayor of Dublin Kathleen Clarke.

Interesting to see the changes to the arrangement of the altar/sanctuary area following Vatican II. According to the Wikipedia article, the altar rails were removed in the 1970s, the wooden pulpit was moved elsewhere, and the reredos (the ornate wall/divider that the candles are standing on either side of the tabernacle) was removed entirely. www.flickr.com/photos/the_burninator/128998406/ Perhaps unsurprisingly, though undoubtedly there are more ladies further back the church, I recon it might almost be possible to count the females in this section of the congregation on one hand. (Made obvious by the expectation that men would remove their headwear - but women would retain theirs.) I'd concur with Sharon Corbet's suggestion that the foremost hat-wearing (and fur-wearing?) lady is the Lord Mayor...

guliolopez Mink, according to John Cooney's book.