The memorial and the Pig Buyers.
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The Stereo Pairs Collection provides us with this fine memorial set against terraces of houses and one large house. It seems familiar somehow but yet I cannot recall where or when I saw it? William John Shaw was respected by the pig buyers it seems but who was he?
Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1870-1883
NLI Ref: STP_1615
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Photographers: Frederick Holland Mares, James Simonton
Contributor: John Fortune Lawrence
Collection: Stereo Pairs Photograph Collection
Date: between ca. 1870-1883
NLI Ref: STP_1615
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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sharon.corbet
He's the Shaw from Shaw's Ham. Here's an article about the Limerick Bacon factories which features him. It mentions: "Apparently W.J. Shaw, the then manager of the Limerick works, was a man of many parts - vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce, a Liberal, President of the Protestant Home Rule Association, a writer and debater on political subjects and actively interested in sport and athletics."
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I wonder is it the same family who owned the general stores called Shaws "almost nationwide"?
sharon.corbet
I think this might be it, in the churchyard of St. Mary's Cathedral: Streetview.
BeachcomberAustralia
If he died in December 1869, this stereo pair has to be 1870+ , knocking 10 years off the date range. To be Shaw, to be Shaw!
Dún Laoghaire Micheál
sharon.corbet
The urn is poking over the wall in this Lawrence photo.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet Wow , eagled eyed Sharon!
suckindeesel
Looks like his monument, good find. In a disgraceful state, half hidden behind a skip or container. Mirrors the state of Limerick's own bacon industry, which is all long lost to foreign competition. Sad
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Date range updated
Dún Laoghaire Micheál
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]] It does get a mention on the last page of this older guide to St. Mary's Cathedral. I'll have a look at the latest leaflet this evening to see if it is still in it.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] good find!
sharon.corbet
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I don't' think so, but you never know.
BeachcomberAustralia
I wonder what the pigs thought of the memorial - were they disgruntled?
suckindeesel
Looks like the urn is missing in streetview. Note how wall was lowered to afford view of memorial to passersby outside.
O Mac
.... I don't know much about pigs.
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
Dr. Ilia
Very nice work
John Spooner
In the black marble* trapezium above the inscription can be seen the the image of a tree trunk with bare branches. They are not marks on the marble because there is a right-left shift between the 2 images. When viewed through a 3-D viewer, the tree is interpreted by my brain as being either (a) behind the memorial and down the street (which would need the monument to be transparent or hollow) or (b) (when common sense kicks in) the reflection of a tree behind the camera. *I assume it's shiny black marble because of the reflection.