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I haven't seen so many asses since the fair in Spancil Hill! Donkeys in the field would suggest that we know where the field is but do we?
The consensus from the community comments below is that this image is part of a Poole series covering donkey export - possibly eventually onto a steamship at Waterford for export to Durban. So it seems likely "the field" was a holding area close to Waterford city. The other images in the series (and information provided by ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq and sharon.corbet others) suggest that the image dates from the earliest decade or so of the 1901-1954 catalogue range...
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio
Date: ca. 1901-1954
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0824
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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I haven't seen so many asses since the fair in Spancil Hill! Donkeys in the field would suggest that we know where the field is but do we?
The consensus from the community comments below is that this image is part of a Poole series covering donkey export - possibly eventually onto a steamship at Waterford for export to Durban. So it seems likely "the field" was a holding area close to Waterford city. The other images in the series (and information provided by ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq and sharon.corbet others) suggest that the image dates from the earliest decade or so of the 1901-1954 catalogue range...
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio
Date: ca. 1901-1954
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 0824
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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D.G-S
What a crowd! This could be an open air concert in my local park.....
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Hope I don't make a complete ass of myself ... somewhere near Waterford ? They then met Captain Daly - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590845 ... and boarded his ship - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590854
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] They also arrived in Waterford as "Noari? Donkeys" catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590839
blokes 2012
They , may well be Delaney's Donkeys.?
O Mac
Are they going to Bray ?.
sharon.corbet
I've found a few scattered references to a "donkey export trade" in Waterford around 1900, e.g. this picture, but that's about it.
La Belle Province
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Inverarra
Welcome back and a happy new year. In the West, polite people are now being encouraged to use the word "donkey" instead of the traditional Irish description of "ass". Another example of how words and their meanings can change over the years. A great photo to start the new year.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] That's assinine!
sharon.corbet
It isn't "Naori", it's Maori donkeys, as in the donkeys that were shipped to Durban on the Maori. Unfortunately at least in one voyage in 1897, about a third of the donkeys didn't survive the journey. (Article from Trove).
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I can't get your Trove link to work, boo hoo. Being exported to South Africa would explain all the long faces...
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Should be fixed now...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] Thank you - what a sad story. Collective nouns for donkeys - drove / herd / pace - www.rinkworks.com/words/collective.shtml
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Not sure if this is the same SS 'Maori' - wrecked off Cape Town in 1909 ... no mention of donkeys, but the Captain was a silly ass to go too near the rocks - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Maori www.wrecksite.eu/imgBrowser.aspx?52295 (several lo-res photos to compare with NLI links at top of this thread) www.icomos.org/risk/2006/14gribble2006an.pdf paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=OW... (contemporary newspaper)
oaktree_brian_1976
wow, so many donkeys! great photo. best of the year, so far!
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What a cool shot!
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splendid shot
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I have just added this photo to our 50,000+ Views Album https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/sets/72157651136879037
ofarrl
This is another good article on the Donkey trade with South Africa from The Spectator July 1897 IRISH DONKEYS FOR SOUTH AFRICA If this was taken between 1899 and 1902 then these donkeys would almost certainly have been destined for the British Army's Remount department and a short and brutal life as pack animals in the Boer War. Over 400,000 horses, mules and donkeys died during the campaign and many of them would have come from Ireland.
ofarrl
This appears to have been taken in Abbeylands on the Kilkenny side of the river. The windmill in the background appears on the 25" Ordnance map. This is the approximate location today goo.gl/maps/m1hzwEKR2t42
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Paul, map updated thank you.