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This Mason slide could not be further removed from yesterday's one. We've gone back decades, and find ourselves in the central hall of Kilmainham Gaol/Jail in Dublin. It looks relatively spruce and freshly painted. And those bundles are allegedly piles of clothes, according to our catalogue...
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910
NLI Ref: M26/16
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Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910
NLI Ref: M26/16
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Niall McAuley
Designed by John McCurdy, who also did this one:
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
What are the round things? [ed.] They were not evident in 1953 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046717 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046627 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046720
BultacoFan
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Might they be heating vents? Ian Fleming wrote in 'Live and Let Die' of New York having a piped heating system with regular vents or gratings in the road.
Foxglove
I have a photo just like this too following my 2016 Dublin trip. I think the jail was also used as a set to film "in the name of the father"
Carol Maddock
Would the piles of "clothes" be more likely blankets?
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
The image is in this 1896 book - archive.org/stream/kilmainhammemor00hopkgoog#page/n21/mod... Brought to our attention by [https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet/] - see comments at this related photo - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/24663802585/]
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2014 via https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca1rob/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/ca1rob/15621717578/ And one of the the round things? https://www.flickr.com/photos/11618605@N07/5666366445/
abandoned railways
Would they be sewer openings for 'slopping out'.
RSpechtphotography
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia pretty damn near the same picture minus the people
cyrusmcl
"...allegedly piles of clothes. Why the word "allegedly"?
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/16442819@N04 Because they don't really look like "piles of clothes".
Foxglove
and my view www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove/24983793770/in/photolist-E...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove Your photo shows stairs going down in the foreground. What is down there - dungeons or more cells? The round things might have been for ventilation down there, and the iron grills have since been filled in with concrete (see above). Or not!
uncovered trains
If not blankets maybe bags made for the post office or even the satchels for postmen.
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/130769560@N08 Good thinking!
Karin Joy Passmore
Strange resemblance to the shopping malls of the 1980s...
Dr. Ilia
fantastic
BlueisCoool
A very interesting image!