Fluffy frills and flounces favour fascinating females!
More from this collection
Related by When
Related by Where
Research Help!
Where: Unknown
Try to find the spot where the photographer was standing.
When: Unknown
Try to find the date or year when this image was made.
Two charming young ladies in their finery commissioned by Miss McCarthy, The Square, Waterford will brighten up the day for those fortunate enough to see them this morning. Their clothing is pristine, their flounces are many and the big eyes make them especially pretty and charming.
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: 18th August 1908
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 1842a
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
Views: 5840
Photographer: A. H. Poole
Collection: Poole Photographic Studio, Waterford
Date: 18th August 1908
NLI Ref: POOLEWP 1842a
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Info:
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 5840
ahpoole
arthurhenripoole
poolecollection
glassnegative
nationallibraryofireland
missmccarthy
thesquare
waterford
countywaterford
munster
girls
hats
flounces
Add Tags
Add Tags
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
This is definitely one for La Belle Provence!
John Spooner
The next catalogue entry (dated 1903) is "Child commissioned by Miss K. McCarthy, Arundle Square, Waterford", and as the newspapers have loads of mentions of McCarthys at Arundel Square between 1900 and 1938, I suggest that the Krazy Kataloger has been a little lax in specifying the address. The McCarthys of Arundel Square through the ages (by newspaper mentions) were: 1900 Edward (2 stables to let) 1902 Mrs Catherine (sued for £30 for a set of scales. During the hearing she said they had been in Ireland since May 1901, previously in GB) 1903 Edward again, selling stuff 1918 Miss Mary, charged with not keeping records of meat transactions (pig offals) 1930 Mrs, requesting to have the pump removed from Milk Lane 1933 Mrs, objecting to the closure of Milk Lane 1935 Mrs, complaining that the rear of her premises were being used as a dumping ground 1938 Miss, A decision to by the County Borough to award her £25 (but no mention of why)
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
18 August 1908 was a Tuesday ...
John Spooner
The 1911 census has Lizzie (10 years old) and Norah (5) McCarthy at Arundel Square, both nieces of Edward and Mary and also daughter Miss Kate (aged 27). That would make them 7 & 2-ish in the picture
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
These girls might have been too young to know what was going on, but they were up-to-date with the fashion ... "... Suffragette white was first donned en masse in June 1908 on Women’s Sunday, the first “monster meeting” hosted by the WSPU in London’s Hyde Park. The 30,000 participants were encouraged to wear white, accessorised with touches of purple and green. ..." From - theconversation.com/what-is-suffragette-white-the-colour-... See also - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Sunday
John Spooner
2 other things I noticed in the 1911 census - a big age difference (18 years) between Edward and Mary McCarthy, and also children born 10, children living 4. But it also says years married=38, which would mean Edward was 10 years old when he married, so I suspect the age given as 48 is incorrect.
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/ "a big age difference (18 years) between Edward and Mary". Are ye living in a closet? My wife of 21+ years and I have a 26 years age difference. And, I know some fairly famous and well off folks who have 30 years or more. What's the big deal?
suckindeesel
https://flic.kr/p/2oaXuoV
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography] In Ireland a marriage where the wife is 18 years older would be so unusual at that time that I don't believe it at all, it must be an error. Looking at the original form pdf, I think that Edward is 68, not 48. Here is a marriage record for an Edward McCarthy and Mary Cullen in 1875, with Edward 2 years older than Mary. No - they are too old, would be 70+ in 1911.
Dún Laoghaire Micheál
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Surely sensitivity to age differences is inversely proportional to road frontage?
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I’ve had a look at the original pdf and it looks more like 68 than 48. Compare with the ‘4’ in children living column which is a conventional, unambiguous, ‘4’. The ‘6’ of 68 is just sloppily written.
luc 5
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Hello Ireland ! I was wondering, is it possible to post one or two Motorsport pictures ? ps : thank you for your pictures, you are one of the last Commons Account to be really active !
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ I think that marriage record is a good match. 2 years age difference when married, same as census if his correct age is 68. Marriage record would have them married 36 years against the 38 years of the census. It wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen age discrepancies in the census returns before. People may have been more casual re their ages in those times, also numeracy wasn’t that high.
CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner/ www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley/ I suppose I misread that Edward was 18 years younger than Mary. I am sure that would be incorrect and probably opposite. To be sure, I am older than my wife, though I have never thought about the age difference, much, except that she is damned cute. Some dimwits Down Under have made untoward comment about our age difference, but I simply consider they are from Brit or Scot convict heritage and simply trying appear holier than they are.
La Belle Province
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ Somehow the hat angels told me to look on Flickr today and find this! Oh, thank you so much for this fantastic flouncy fabulousness.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
We have played with Mr Poole's toy horse before - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6659820851/
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/la_belle_province At the NLI we always aim to please:-)
La Belle Province
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/ and with hair bows yet! You spoil me.