Lord, Lady and Rover Castletown
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I love to see a family with a dog front and centre! Lord and Lady Castletown in an unusual pose with the lady standing while the gentleman sits and caresses the dog. And what a dog? A poodle with an elaborate, almost covid hairstyle and the task this morning is to discover the name of the said Poodle the most original of which will receive a virtual sticky bun with extra icing!
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: between ca. 1901 and1954 1927
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2648
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Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: between ca. 1901 and
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 2648
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
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BeachcomberAustralia
What on earth has Mr Poole done to her ladyship's hair?
Niall McAuley
Bernard Edward Barnaby Fitzpatrick and Emily Ursula Clare nee St. Leger At thepeerage She died in 1927 aged 73, so we are before that.
derangedlemur
Is this part of the NLI series "How not to photoshop"?
Paddywhack56
Kelloggs Corn Flakes had a set of toy plastic dogs as in-pack giveaways in the 1960s and the poodle was a dead ringer for this chap down to the partially shorn legs. I sometimes worry about the things I remember! I wonder if this doggy might be Percival Puddingbowl III?
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddywhack56 That's a good beginning and I really like the name!
BeachcomberAustralia
That would have made a great knick-knack https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddywhack56 - give the dog a bone!
John Spooner
I haven't (yet) found the name of the pictured pooch, but a presumably previous poodle belonging to Her Ladyship was called "Zulu". And her
Evening Herald (Dublin) - Saturday 30 January 1892, in a lengthy pen-portrait of Lady Castletown
flock of pigeonsfox terrier was called "Jim"BeachcomberAustralia
Lord Castletown was known as "Barnie" in 1882 via 'Spy' in 'Vanity Fair' - upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Bernard_FitzP... , one of several portraits on his wikipedia page - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_FitzPatrick,_2nd_Baron_Cast...
Niall McAuley
I think they are probably at home, at Ballygran house aka Grantstown house, Co. Laois, which is No Longer Standing.
Foxglove
oh dannym8 must be on his holidays! ..... there is a dog!
Foxglove
the dog should be called "Warhol" in honour of the ladyship's photoshopped hair doo
cargeofg
I know the dog was called Scooby Doo in the TV series named after him and one of the cast was called Shaggy. It is a more appropriate name for this dog. The other folk are not related to me as far as I know!!!
DannyM8
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ A poodle, only just qualities as a Dog in my books!!
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddywhack56 Do remember the yellow AA battery powered submarine?
cargeofg
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/paddywhack56] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] You say Flickr is amazing. But by my sister Hazel must be telepathic as she sent me this Facebook link last night and I only just opened. I remember us stopping at the garage and going in to look at it on our way to Kilfenora. www.facebook.com/100865096953196/posts/1166643563708672/
Dún Laoghaire Micheál
Might her ladyship's wig have been loaned to the dog for the occasion?
suckindeesel
White spatts came into fashion in the 1920s Ed. Perhaps Fido's shorn locks were put to good use In the construction of her Ladyship's fascinator?
Paddywhack56
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] I missed Mr Quinn's submarine first time around but I've just watched the video. Very entertaining, thank you for the link.
sharon.corbet
History Ireland has a potted history of the gentleman including the following: ...He also had some notable eccentricities: he kept a 14ft tame python in his rooms until one afternoon it almost strangled his chambermaid, who was saved only by his early return... ...He shot reindeer in Lapland, bull elk in Norway and bears in the Rocky Mountains. He also travelled through Africa, Russia, Asia Minor, Constantinople and Persia, where he stayed with the shah, who allowed him to hunt on his lands...
suckindeesel
Whatever about Fido's coiffure, his owners are both having bad hair days, courtesy of Mr. Poole.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Don't underestimate the qualities of the poodle, they're not all lapdogs. A standard poodle is,a large dog used in particular for duck hunting and sometimes upland bird hunting. They are a true water dog, which probably explains their comic hairdos, their coat being trimmed to prevent water logging when retrieving game from river or lake. Second only in agility and intelligence to the border collie. Our dog appears to have a dice attached to his collar.
suckindeesel
From "Find a Grave" "Baroness Castletown of Upper Ossory. Daughter of Hayes St. Leger 4th Viscount Doneraile 1818-1887 and Mary Ann Grace Louisa Lenox-Conyngham 1832-1907 She was their only surviving child. She married Barnaby Fitzpatrick on 23 April 1874. They had no issue, and their titles became extinct." May explain their love of dogs Both were extraordinarily long lived, him 104 years, her 94 years PS: Too extraordinary it seems, will have to recheck those dates again! 73 for her and a more impressive 87 for him, I think
BeachcomberAustralia
When you go looking, all kinds of stories turn up. This happened to her father, in 1887 - "Doneraile was one of the great huntsmen of his day and he kept a pet fox, which became rabid and bit its master. Lord Doneraile contracted rabies and died when he was smothered with pillows by the housemaids to spare him suffering and prevent him spreading the disease to others." From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_St_Leger,_4th_Viscount_Doneraile There are several undigitized 'Similar Items' in the NLI catalogue which show that Mr Poole visited Doneraile Court in "ca. 1915". The wiki page - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doneraile_Court - has this gossip - "When Doneraile Court was the residence of Lord Castletown, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who had been a soldier in the American Civil War, and became a lawyer and United States Supreme Court justice, carried on an extensive correspondence with Clare, Lady Castletown. He visited Doneraile on several occasions, and may have had an affair with her." I wonder if this photo could also be at Doneraile? Does anybody recognise the two balls either side of her ladyship? PigeonView - goo.gl/maps/jY7Vqv5HUGas2HVf7
WillieB
LOVE her hair!
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O Mac
Lady Castletown didn't have an hair. (sic)
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