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Taken by Pall Mall Gazette journalist Henry Norman the day after Widow MacNamara's eviction. The first sheriff, called McMahon, had turned up with a large force several days earlier but had epileptic fit and the police withdrew. The tenants saw this as divine intervention and made this effigy of him. Incidentally the title was attributed by Norman to a photo he took of Michael Davitt and two priests, full term: "the firebrands, lay and clerical".

Taken on or around June 2nd, 1887.

The Bodyke evictions have been well and truly covered in other posts and on other shots. You can just see Canon Hannon in this one, he was very much the ringleader though he insisted on no violence and intervened when he felt the tenants were getting too hot under the collar. Great shot and a very interesting story!

Swordscookie Sorry, Sean. Don't mean to be a slave driver - just having a good old tidy up, and was astonished that there'd never been a comment on this one. :)

creepy looking thing that is.

For anyone interested, though we first posted this image a few years ago, the events it captures were covered in a 2015 episode of Tríd an Lionsa (available, as of Nov 2015, on the TG4 web-player).

Bodyke is the home parish of novelist, Edna O'Brien

Bodyke changed the course of Irish history in the 1880's when the Bodyke evictions became headline news.

www.google.ie/maps/@52.8842186,-8.5971789,3a,85.2y,125.4h... Eviction memorial

The females are wearing aprons, but there are no local industries.

Wow! I have never seen pictures like this before ... my-my-my, and we think we have it so-bad ... DAMN!!! Thanks much !!!!!!! 12-26-15

Terrible. Today no one knows what real poverty looks like. Embarassing for the Brittish upperclasses!

I can imagine those big families lived in very small houses with no personal space for anyone, sharing one room for many to sleep.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/94586980@N06] Campo Hubert unci_narynin Thanks for your comments, these photos are very thought evoking. I think our collection of photos does show the vast differences in lifestyle across the class divide in Ireland at the time. The ownership of productive land seems to be the main driver of these differences.

This may be the same location as the next picture with the camera turned 180º looking up the road. www.google.ie/maps/@55.0440914,-8.1941899,3a,75y,15.41h,8...