tailors

I can just picture the guy standing in the middle with a whip in one hand. Looks like a dreadful sweat-shop and why are they working from the floor?

Well Stu, I think that's more modern sensibilities at work. There are photos from all over the world of tailors sitting in exactly this position, sometimes on the floor, sometimes on raised benches. And in fairness, the space is actually quite bright. I found myself wondering how they heated the place in winter though...

It looks more like a prison camp.

Thought provoking and interesting. Thanks.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons That's true and I've also seen pictures of tailors working in a similar position. Wonder why they work in that seemingly uncomfortable position? How long can they sit like that on hard wooden flooring? Now, I'm surmising here....it would be nice to know if the man standing to our right is Mr Hearne himself and the other two to the left perhaps clerks? The man standing near the centre could possibly be the shop governor (foreman) and looks to be a hard task-master? Heating? If there's no fireplace then a couple of paraffin (kerosene) heaters. But without adequate ventilation the room would be very stuffy and nauseous, leading to headaches.

Adorei sua foto..

Some of my ancestors came from Prussia in the mid 1800s, and were a family of tailors. I've heard from cousins that there is a photo of a large pair of shears, like this one, somewhere, taken in their shop near Dayton Ohio... I also have a thing for antique irons, though I rarely do any ironing myself. This is a lovely portrait.

P.S. Fógra: Our curator of photographs here at the National Library, Elizabeth Kirwan, is looking for some help. She hopes to identify the women in this Liberty Hall photograph, and to establish the date it was taken. It's been languishing rather unloved here for almost 13 years. So it'd be great if some of ye could help us revisit it, once you've finished with today's photograph, of course!

The fourth son, Vincent James O'Connell, was an architect ... Architect and engineer, of Earl Street, Dundalk, active from the first decade of the twentienth century until 1950 or later. Vincent O' Connell, fourth son of Henry O'Connell, grocer, of Dundalk, and his wife, Mary, was born in Co. Louth in 1882 or 1883. He became a pupil in the office of of HAGUE & amp; MCNAMARA in Dublin(1) before setting up in practice in Earl Street, Dundalk, in 1906 or earlier. He was appointed engineer to the Newry Port and Harbour Trust in 1910 in succession to JAMES BARTON (2) and had opened a branch office in Newry by the autumn of 1911.(3) He married after 1911, when, according to the 1911 census, he was still living as a bachelor with his parents in Earl Street, Dundalk. By 1944 he had taken a son into partnership, practising as V.J. O'Connell & Son. ... See - www.dia.ie/architects/view/4107/O%27CONNELL-VINCENTJAMES

Still writ large in Earl Street (but not matching the photo) ... H. O'CONNELL & Co. WHOLESALE TEA WAREHOUSE. HAM & BACON STORE see - maps.app.goo.gl/BrRxhQrFBjJwKVKK7

Building is now occupied by the Dundalk Leader. maps.app.goo.gl/qQc3PKQvNxnCijf97

Suck Diesel Any info on that IWWU photo you have, will be very gratefully received. But could you comment under that photo, rather than here, so all the information stays together?