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A scene from a beach, apparently in Achill, where the locals are gathered with tins, buckets, boats and nets. What is really unusual and demands some explanation is the man inspecting the nets while holding a gun? (Incidentally this is the first time I can recall uploading an "Imperial" sized image to this stream. I shall have to study it carefully to see the difference such a significant size will make.)
We are on Dooagh Beach, thanks Niall McAuley I think we can understand that the peopel we see had a hard existence, it is nice to see some of them playfully pose for the camera. BeachcomberAustralia provides a piece from the magnificent Trove website curated by our friends from The National Library of Australia where we see Michael Davitt pleading for the building of Piers and Harbours for the fishermen in the area, Davitt argues that at little expense the construction would save uncounted lives and increase fishing productivity. There is evidence of a small pier in the streetview, I wonder how long after this photo it was built?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1880-1900
NLI Ref: L_IMP_1289
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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We are on Dooagh Beach, thanks Niall McAuley I think we can understand that the peopel we see had a hard existence, it is nice to see some of them playfully pose for the camera. BeachcomberAustralia provides a piece from the magnificent Trove website curated by our friends from The National Library of Australia where we see Michael Davitt pleading for the building of Piers and Harbours for the fishermen in the area, Davitt argues that at little expense the construction would save uncounted lives and increase fishing productivity. There is evidence of a small pier in the streetview, I wonder how long after this photo it was built?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1880-1900
NLI Ref: L_IMP_1289
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Niall McAuley
Streetview of Dooagh beach in Achill.
DannyM8
There is a Dog and a Comedian rowing a boat.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley If you keep on further down the road in your street view, the boats are still there!!
Inverarra
What a great photo. Looks like a very dangerous beach to be launching and landing currachs. Incredibly skillful oarsmen (and some women) in those days. Many thanks.
Inverarra
Looks a bit staged. Sitting into a currach while it is on rocks is and was a thing to be avoided, for obvious reasons.
domenico milella
Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
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At the time, c. 1890, it was far from sweetness and light on Achill Island. Via Trove this 1886 article, "On Starvation's Verge', about a report by Michael Davitt ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Davitt ) includes -
From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/119446126 (Freemans Journal Sydney, 24/4/1886oaktree_brian_1976
Is that a gun/rifle or a cain? Man talking to the lady in the middle has a flat hat and a walking stick?
abandoned railways
Definately a Flintrock weapon, and he also has a ball pouch on his back for powder and shot.
dantheserene
Perhaps a fowling piece rather than a rifle?
Rory_Sherlock
The firearm could have been for a seal cull - see this other Achill image for comparison: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000564837
Swordscookie
My first thought was that the guy with the gun was a kind of water bailiff examining the nets?
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Fascinated by this - the sandy beach appeared again in 2017 after 33 years - www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/10/i-had-50-tourists-d... "... My great-great-grandfather used to blow a bugle on the beach to let the villagers know when the wrack was washed ashore so they could come down and get their share. ..."
Dr. Ilia
good image
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💡This photo is in the 1902 book 'On an Irish Jaunting-Car Through Donegal and Connemara' by S. G. Bayne. Title for the photo - "The Fishery, Achill Island. Slievemore in the distance. Host Sheridan with the rifle". Page 78. archive.org/details/onirishjauntingc00bayn/page/n134/mode... So photo must be before 1902 at the latest.