A charming photograph from the Clonbrock Collection today with a group of school girls and boys with large bunches of flowers and plants. It brought to mind the tradition on RTE Radio 1 of some presenter playing a recording of Father Sidney McEwan singing "Flowers of the rarest" on May 1st each year. Was this celebrating the harvest of was it a celebration of Bealtaine?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gv0S3M-mR8

Photographers: Dillon Family

Contributors: Luke Gerald Dillon, Augusta Caroline Dillon

Collection: Clonbrock photographic Collection

Date: Circa 1904

NLI Ref: CLON928

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Owner: National Library of Ireland on The Commons
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