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The following attempts to pull together all details of this series of Eviction Photos - your comments on same are very welcome. L_ROY_1760 Digitised------No On Flickr------No Zoomable------No Catalogue Title------Irish Life: Eviction Scenes: Evictions Corrected Title------No Change Notes------None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1761 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------No. We can request if needed Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Irish Life: On the Road for Eviction Corrected Title------No Change Notes------None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1762 Digitised------No On Flickr------No Zoomable------No Catalogue Title------Irish Life: Eviction Scenes: Evictions. Eviction party arriving at house of John Flanagan, Tullycrine. Corrected Title------No Change Notes------None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1763 Digitised------No On Flickr------ Zoomable------No Catalogue Title------Eviction scene, The Council Corrected Title------No Change Notes------None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1764 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Eviction of Michael Connell, Moyasta, Co.Clare Corrected Title------Eviction of Unknown Connell, Moyasta, Co Clare (Could be John, Michael or Patrick?? Notes------"The first tenant to be evicted was Patrick Connell. A turf fire lighted on the road somewhat retarded the progress of the Cavalry and the battering ram, and it had to be extinguished before they could advance. Connell's house -- an old and miserable thatched cottage situated on the banks of the Shannon -- was but feebly barricaded, and the doors and windows were only stuffed with bushes. An entrance was soon made through one of the windows, and then Connell came out and was placed under temporary arrest. The house, not being in a fit condition for a caretaker, was closed and deserted. A short march along the river bank took the sheriff and his men to the premises of Mr. Bermingham" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1765 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Group gathered outside the house of Mary O'Dea, Tullycrine, Co.Clare following an eviction Corrected Title------Not Sure Notes------This Map may help understand the probable movement of the Evictors . [https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/23406107524/] .. The McGrath eviction [Thursday 26/7/1888 - a photographer turned up - Robert French?] was the one which got most attention and in retrospect, it can be seen with its accompanying tragedy, to have put immense pressure on the landlord. There were two further days of evictions with Mr. French, the photographer, present on both days. On Monday 30th July Patrick Carrig, Thomas Considine, John Flanagan, the Widow O'Dea and Johanna O'Dea from the Tullycrine area were evicted, and a Mrs.O'Dea had her door burst in with a sledge before the evictors realised they had come to the wrong house. On the following day the procession again moved in the Kilkee direction and evicted John Connell, Thomas Bermingham and Thomas Higgins. Thomas Higgins was the last person to be put out of his house and holding in the Vandeleur Evictions of the summer of 1888. ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1766 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------On the road for eviction Corrected Title------None Notes------"Same place.... L_ROY_1761 and L_ROY_1768 They were taken at Tullycrine/Tullycreen on the Ennis/Kilrush Road " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1767 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Michael Connell, Moyasta, Co.Clare after eviction Corrected Title------Thomas Considines in Tullycrine. 30 July 1888. According to Clare Library Notes------"Same place as L_ROY_1761 and L_ROY_1768 They were taken at Tullycrine/Tullycreen on the Ennis/Kilrush Road. Considine's house was the second visited on Monday 30/7/1888, across the road from Pat Carrig (see O Mac's first photo above). Vividly described at trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/169707904 , including ... ... The forces then passed to a miserable looking cottage on the roadside, the holding of Thomas Considine. There was an appearance of some slight effort to barricade this house. The door and windows were filled with thick branches of thorn. The sheriff having demanded possession, Col. Turner called on those within to come out quietly, but no response was given save a dish of hot water and meal, which, however, did no harm to anyone. Colonel Turner said, ""Go on; we don't mind that. You had better come out quietly."" District-Inspector Hill called out— ""We are going to knock down the house, and you had better come out."" There being no sign of this request being complied with, the ram was brought up and an emergencyman, who got a small dose of hot water, meanwhile kept guard outside the door with a square shield to place the ram workers under shelter. Mr. Hill called out, ""the battering-ram is going to work, so look out."" The ram was then, with the usual cry from the ""boss,"" put in motion, and it dashed through the slight impediment of the bushes and soon drove them to one side. They were thrust forward again, however. When the sticks and brambles where[sic] disposed of District Inspector Hill and the sheriff, both armed with shields, and a couple of policeman rushed in, and three young boys and two girls, who looked perfectly unconcerned, were brought out. The girls were sent away and the boys detained in custody. The extent of this holding, I should mention, was thirteen acres, and the rent £9, non-judicial. The tenant owed three and a half years to March last. He told me it had been raised from £1, and that 15s. had been put on his valuation. The women around gave cheers for the Plan of Campaign. The agent, addressing the tenant, said, ""You could settle now for £9."" The tenant's wife replied, ""We would not give you twopence-halfpenny now; you have turned us and our thirteen children out on the road, and see what comfort it will bring you."" The March was then continued to the holding of John Flanagan at some little distance. ... ..." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1768 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Mathias Magrath's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare with the Battering Ram in front Corrected Title------Thomas Considine's house in Tullycrine, according to Clare Library. Notes------"Same House as .... L_ROY_1767 They were taken at Tullycrine/Tullycreen on the Ennis/Kilrush Road " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1769 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------T.Birmingham's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare with Battering Ram and soldiers outside Corrected Title------ Notes------"Same House as .... L_ROY_1771 " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1770 Digitised------No On Flickr------No Zoomable------NO Catalogue Title------Irish Life: Eviction Scenes: Battering Ram Corrected Title------ Notes------None -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1771 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Battering Ram "Back with them, away with them Corrected Title------ Notes------"Same house as L_ROY 1769 L_ROY 1772 L_ROY1773 and L_ROY_1774 The discussion on today's image covered so much that it's hard to summarise - We learned that it was taken near Moyasta in Clare in 1888, probably at the home of a tenant of the Vandeleur Estate named Thomas Bermingham. While there's so much more to say about it, for now we'll add the explanation, as provided John Spooner, of the image's title (from Freeman's Journal report July 1888) The battering ram is no stranger to Irish evictions [...] from the centre hangs a chain which works a huge beam with an iron ferrule, and moved by ropes pulled by 17 or 18 Emergency-men [...] they hammered and hammered with but little result. The captain of the Emergency troop, at each swing of the ram, cried out, ""Back, away with them. Back, away with them."" Just as sailors cry ""Heave ho."" The people in the foreground may be identified in the following extract. More about ""Mr and Mrs Tourist"" - this interesting discussion and photos (via 'The Gael' of 1901) on the Clare Library Forum - My great grandfather, Major E. J. O'Shaughnessy, his wife Margaretta Dunn O'Shaughnessy, and her sister Ellen Dunn, were witnesses to the evictions on the Vandeleur Estate in July 1888. My great grandfather wrote of his observations and opinions to friends and associates in New York City, and very likely to his family in Montreal, Canada. We know of three publications, two in New York City in 1889, subsequently reprinted in a Montreal newspaper, and the photo contribution to an article on Clare featured in the American magazine The Gael in 1901. We know that my great grandfather had several photos of the evictions in his personal collection. He did not take these photos and gives credit to a professional Limerick photographer Thomas O'Connor. Though my great grandfather's collection of photos is no longer in the family's possession, I suspect these were but copies, and that the originals still exist in a private collection. I also suspect that my great grandfather is to be photo in the background in one of the photos. He was keen to be recorded at such a historical and at the same time, to him, shocking, event. Of further interest to some, perhaps, is that my great father was not merely a tourist, but also an activist, a member of the New York City Land League organizations, a fund raiser for the Irish Parliamentary Fund, a former Canadian Fenian, he always said, and almost certainly a Clan na Gael member at the time of his visit to Clare. " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1772 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------The Battering Ram has done its work Corrected Title------ Notes------"Same House as .... L_ROY_1771 L_ROY 1769 L_ROY1773 and L_ROY_1774 Some notes from Irish Times Article the previous week or so. Preparations for Evictions on a Large Scale. 100 Men of the Berkshire Regiment. Battering Ram for use by the Evictors has been forwarded to Captain Croker Sheriff of the County. 100 Tenants under notice of Eviction. Arrears amount to £60,000. All owe at least 3 years rent some 12 years. Common People and places identified " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1773 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Eviction scene "Ready for hot water" Corrected Title------ Notes------"Same House as .... L_ROY_1771 L_ROY 1769 L_ROY1772 and L_ROY_1774 Back of Thomas Bermingham's house on the banks of the river Shannon. NB reversed shrubbery in the chimney, compared with " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1774 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Eviction scene, Ireland Corrected Title------ Notes------"Same House as .... L_ROY_1771 L_ROY 1769 L_ROY1772 and L_ROY_1773 Back of Thomas Bermingham's house on the banks of the river Shannon. " -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1775 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Eviction scene at the house of John Connell, Moyasta, Co.Clare Corrected Title------ Notes------"Same House as .... L_ROY_1764 John Connell Could be correct description for this house - see notes sbove on L_ROY_1764" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1776 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Eviction scene, Ireland Corrected Title------ Notes------It looks to me that this is in the same area as the previous 4 photos. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1777 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------T.Birmingham's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare Corrected Title------Not Sure - BUT NOT T. Birmingham's House Notes------It looks to me that this is in the same area as the previous 4 photos. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_ROY_1779 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Eviction scene (Battering Ram) Corrected Title------ Notes------This is I think the same house in process of demolition as L_CAB_04918 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L_CAB_04918 Digitised------Yes On Flickr------ Zoomable------Yes Catalogue Title------Mathias Magrath's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare after destruction by the Battering Ram Corrected Title------ Notes------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ED: Anyone have an idea which house this was? The boarded-up windows are different ... Perhaps it is Mathias / Patrick McGrath's house - see the two distinctive thick horizontal ropes holding the thatch on ...

Full vivid description of the McGrath eviction - trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/115459777

beachcomber australia O Mac moccasinlanding John Floyd Sharon Corbet DannyM8 Anne McGinley blokes 2012 Melinda Young Stuart guliolopez Swordscookie Niall McAuley John Spooner derangedlemur Ladies and Gentlemen, I have attempted to bring some context to the "Eviction Photos" in my previous post. Please have a look and advise me of any omissions or errors. I have still to Map some of the photos and we all need to agree on the exact dates. As always your help and support is greatly appreciated, The Other Mary.

Particular thanks to www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/ www.flickr.com/photos/129555378@N07/ www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03/ www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06/ Thanks for your work already over the holiday period, have a virtual glass of something nice on me tonight!!!

Powerful image! Obviously the good "Dr." was a man of some substance in those days and it would not have been too easy to get him and his family out. It would appear that he was putting up a fight and either had broken out of the roof to repel boarders or they had broken in to get at him. clearly there is a man being manhandled down the ladder by the Peeler! the bushes on the roof and close to the house are interesting, was he planning a conflagration or was it just a form of obstacle?

I'm no expert on Scottish regiments but those seem to be Cameronians in the trews on the left? The tree trunk was probably intended as a battering ram for the doors should they be barricaded.

"The only serious attempt at resisting the execution of the law was made by "Dr." Tully, one of the leading local "agitators," to the tendency of whose harangues judicial reference was made during the investigation into the case of Mr. Wilfrid Blunt. Tully had a holding of seventeen acres at a rent of L2, 10s., the Government valuation being L4. He earned a good livelihood as a boat-builder, and he had put up a slated house on his holding. But in November 1884 he chose to stop paying the very low rent at which he held his place, and he has paid no rent since that time. As is stated in a footnote on page 153, vol. ii. of this book, a decree was granted against Tully by Judge Henn for three years' rent due in May 1887, and his equity of redemption having expired July 9, 1888, this recourse was had to the law against him. As the leading spirit of the agitation, Tully had put a garrison into his house of twelve men and two women. He had dug a ditch around it, taken out the window-sashes, filled up the casements and the doorways with stones and trunks of trees. Portholes had been pierced under the roof, through which the defenders might thrust red-hot pikes, pitchforks, and other weapons, and empty pails of boiling water upon the assailants. A brief parley took place. Tully refused to make any offer of a settlement unless the agent would agree to reinstate all the evicted tenants, to which Mr. Tener replied that he would recognise no "combination," but was ready to deal with every tenant fairly and individually. Finally the Sheriff ordered his men to take the place. Ladders were planted, and while some of the constables, under the protection of a shield covered with zinc, a sort of Roman _testudo_, worked at removing the earthern ramparts, others nimbly climbed to the roof and began to break in from above. In their excitement the garrison helped this forward by breaking holes through the roof themselves to get at the attacking party, and in about twenty minutes the fortress was captured, and the inmates were prisoners. Two constables were burned by the red-hot pikes, the gun of another was broken to pieces by a huge stone, and a fourth was slightly wounded by a fork. One of the defenders got a sword-cut; and Tully was brought forth as one too severely wounded to walk. Upon investigation, however, the surgeon refused to certify that he was unable to undergo the ordinary imprisonment in such cases made and provided. The collapse of the resistance at this central point was followed by a general surrender. After the capture of Tully's house, Mr. Tener writes to me, "I found it being gutted by his family, who would have carried it away piecemeal. They had already taken away the flooring of one of the rooms." Thereupon Mr. Tener had the house pulled down, with the result of seeing a statement made in a leading Nationalist paper that he was "evicting the tenants and pulling down their houses." Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) He wasn't really a doctor but was called this because he prescribed "leaden pills" (bullets) for greedy landlords... This eviction was part of something called "the Woodford Evictions". "Commons Debates - 15 April 1889 MR. JAMES STUART : I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether Francis Tully, who was sentenced to two consecutive periods of six months each in connection with his defence of his house at the Woodford evictions in August, 1887, has now been over six mouths in gaol; whether it is the case that his eyesight is becoming impaired owing to his imprisonment; and, whether, inasmuch as the two sentences were practically for the same offence, he would consider the advisability of extending some clemency towards him? *MR. A. J. BALFOUR : The Prisons Board informs me that the reply to the inquiry in the first paragraph is in the affirmative. The Medical Officer reports that the prisoner has lately had slight catarrhal ophthalmia, for which he is under treatment and improving daily, but that his general health could not be better. I am advised that the two sentences were not practically for the same offence." Here is another interesting article with the picture above; www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/48295/fear-and-loathing-... There are more publications; The Woodford Evictions, a thesis by Thomas Feeney The Woodford evictions : Report submitted to the Committee of the Property Defence Association ... 21st October, 1886, by Captain E.C. Hamilton. I am a historical researcher with insomnia... a very handy combination ;)

juffrouwjo thanks for that information! This is arguably one of the best images the NLI have put up so far and they are getting better and better. The extra information is really helpful and adds a dimension to each image!!!

Brian Mulligan My pleasure :) Swordscookie, I also don't think that they are gas mask bags but they sure do remind me of them. Interesting uniforms all around, they are also wearing bands over their shoulders. We need an expect on police history here to describe all the lovely details.

The grandstand at the circus?

No, these are giant political posters, featuring anti-Tammany cartoon drawings. The Tammany tiger symbol was devised by the famous Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast, who also invented the elephant and donkey symbols of the Republican and Democratic parties. The tiger in the foreground has the word "Tammany" on a collar around its neck. The posters appear to have suffered an assault by pro-Tammany hooligans.

Eric L. Boetzel, the man in the photograph, was a former deputy Attorney General of New York state, and a former Assistant District Attorney of NYC, who had resigned that office to become assistant manager of the 1913 New York City mayoralty campaign of John Purroy Mitchel, the fusion candidate, who won election.

LOC -- his name was BOETZEL, with a zed, not an ess. Bain at this period had a clerk on staff who was unable to inscribe a proper zee.

Thanks for the info.