thomasjwynne

Interesting to note that both of the Wynne images you've uploaded have a magenta cast. Is there a specific reason for this? I have a fading print of this photograph in the family album, which I thought of uploading to my stream, but you beat me to it. :-)

Oh sorry, Mike! I was just so eager to get it up there. Really don't know about the magenta cast - many of our Wynne photos have it, and I love it personally...

No need to apologise at all. It's one of those photos I was sure you'd have, and in far superior quality to the print I have. The remainder of the photographs I have are of the immediate Wynne family members, and then my Great-grandfathers offspring, so I hope to see many more of T.J's photos here.

Well, if you're uploading any of the family members to your own stream, let's know - would love to see what they looked like...

Haha! I don't think I'll go that far yet, as I only have the free account on here, and I'm limited to 200 photos. I did come across two postcards from the era that I've scanned and posted, and though the photographs aren't credited to Thomas, they may be of interest.......

Egg white, or albumen, was used to bind the light-sensitive chemicals to the paper. It was the dominant method in the second half of the 19th century, until replaced by gelatin and collodion paper. Previous to the negative-positive print, invented by Fox Talbot, photographs were one offs onto metal, as invented by Daguerre.

Lots of Brookhill and Lambert information here - landedestates.nuigalway.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show....

That would appear to be here: bit.ly/325tqC0

You can't get streetview in, but you can see it on the aerial view: www.google.com/maps/@53.7042124,-9.0117282,115m/data=!3m1...

It looks like it was full of Blakes in 1901: www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Crossboyne...

Judge Keogh died in October 1878. His obituary in Freeman's Journal began: Death in its most appalling shape has laid its hand upon one of the most singularly-gifted, fitfully-fated, and worst-detested Irishmen of his generation. and continued: ... sank and died yesterday morning far from the land which was in turn dazzled and horrified by the flashes of his lawless genius, in which he has been alternately blest and curst - in which, having postured his hour as the popular darling, he has lived to trample upon the people upon whose shoulders he climbed to power, and to repay their loathing with liberal interest. and continues for another 5 columns. Obviously not a popular man.

A search in Freeman's Journal for 'Judge Keogh effigy' gives 17 hits, all but one between June and August 1872. The burnings were in protest at his 'Galway judgement', when he disqualified a Captain Nolan from taking his seat in parliament. A quick scan shows effigy burnings in Cashel, Galway, Gort, Tuam, Dublin, Waterford, Tralee, Ballaghaderreen, Enniskillen, Ennis and Cavan in June (and I doubt that every burning was reported). The other hits concerned the subsequent court cases for affray and assault etc. In Derry the effigy was 'consigned to the waves'. Castlebar seems to have been rather more restrained as far as I can see - 'An immense crowd, preceded by a band ... After many a curse on Judge Keogh and after singing 'God save Ireland', the large crowd quietly dispersed' Later reports show the town raising money for Captain Nolan, and petitioning the House of Commons for the removal of Judge Keogh. One of the accounts mentions cries of 'So help me' during the burning, a phrase which appears on the effigy in the photo.

Excellent!

John Spooner Thank you, John, Judge Keogh really was not popular! May I just check with you, when was the Castlebar procession, as this is the most likely location and date for this photo?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons It was reported in the Saturday, June 1st 1872 edition, one of a number of 'extracts from correspondence and telegrams' received by the Freeman appearing under the heading 'Indignation in the Provinces'. The one from Castlebar is headed 'Castlebar, Thursday', which would be May 30th 1872. Whether the correspondent reported the march the following morning or straight away isn't clear. The judgment was made on Monday, the first effigy burning was in Galway on Tuesday evening (during which the police charged the crowd with drawn swords), and then effigy burning seemed to spread through Ireland over the following days, and become a national passtime.