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Mary Clandillon in her graduation finery and looking in contemplative mood, as befits a newly minted and highly educated Mary! Yes, us Marys do stick together :-) Coming from the Sheehy Skeffington collection we can expect that this young lady was involved in the struggle for women's rights, social justice, and perhaps the national struggle as well. But what can we find out?
Photographers: Lafayette Studio, Dublin
Collection: Sheehy-Skeffington Photographic Collection
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NLI Ref: NPA SHE109
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Niall McAuley
One hit for that name in the 1901 census, clearly a catholic girl's school. Age 16, Birthplace County Galway.
Niall McAuley
Birth record from 1884, somewhere illegible near Gort. Father William, profession possibly Teacher and..., mother might be Johanna. Yes, the 1901 census shows William and Johanna, both national teachers in Ardimullivan. Siblings Lizzie (19 and a Monitress) and John (12) also at home, along with Bridget Little, another teacher, and one servant Lizzie Murphy.
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"Photographers to the King & Queen" implies after 1901.
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A Mary Clandillon graduated from The Royal University of Ireland in 1906 with honours (2nd class) in modern literature. books.google.ie/books?id=3vDiDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT61&lpg...
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"Copies from this photograph can be enlarged to life size and painted in oil or water colours" Extra adverts from Lafayette on the reverse, see - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000671435 [edit - link fixed]
Niall McAuley
I don't see marriage or death records for Mary. I think this is a record of the death of Lizzie aged 86, retired National School teacher.
Niall McAuley
ancestry.co.uk suggests mother Johanna dies in 1916, and father William in 1918.
Niall McAuley
Their 1911 return says 8 children, 6 living, and includes 28 year old Michael, a national School teacher.
Niall McAuley
I don't see a school in Ardimullivan townland on the 25" or Cassini maps, but Lough Cutra Schools are a stones throw from the townland.
Niall McAuley
The NIAH has an entry for Lough Cutra NS, and notes that Michael Cusack, founder of the GAA, taught there from 1866-71.
Niall McAuley
Bingo! The best known teachers in Lough Cutra after Cusack were Mr. and Mrs. Clandillon. Mr. William Clandillon of Athy, Co. Kildare was appointed principal in 1885. In 1886 a new boys school was erected and two new teachers, Johanna and Brigid Little from Bodyke arrived to teach in the newly formed girls school. Mr. Clandillon later married Johanna and they lived in the school residence. The three teachers had trained in Tyrone House in Dublin. Mr. Clandillon had a keen interest in Botany and horticulture and in 1884 the school was recognised as a Garden National School. Lord Gough, himself a distinguished authority on botany and palaeontology wished to have the school placed with the Department of Agriculture but nevertheless gave Clandillon his support. The same year, Miss Brigid Little was appointed principal of the girl’s school. Mr. William Clandillon died in the flu epidemic 1918 and was succeeded as school principal by his son Michael who remained at the helm until his retirement in 1948. His marriage to Margaret Hanratty, the assistant teacher in the national school forged closed the bonds between the Clandillons and Lough Cutra.
Niall McAuley
The 1901 census form is for St. Mary's University College at Muckross Park. This purchase of Muckross Park in 1900 saw the beginning of a new era of Dominican education with the opening later in that year of a primary and secondary school and a Third level College for women sitting examinations in the Royal University.
Niall McAuley
Her older brother Seamus was the first director of 2RN, the precursor of RTÉ. I think there is a family resemblance.
Niall McAuley
Finally a Sheehy-Skeffington link! In this wikipedia page on Seamus we learn: He attended St Flannan's College, Ennis, and entered University College Dublin (UCD) in 1897 ... Among his friends from UCD were Francis Sheehy-Skeffington, Francis Cruise O'Brien, and George Clancy. I do not see him in the census - I am going to guess he went by some Irish spelling of his name.
Niall McAuley
On his 1904 marriage record he goes by Séamus Clanndíalúin Seamus Clondillon on the record of his death.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley Masterclass, well done. Mary
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia The reverse is really worth a look.
John Spooner
John Spooner
NPA SHE106 - [Woman in academic robes, seated at desk with papers, looking sideways] looks more like the "snap shot" method without the sitter's knowledge (as advertised).
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Exactly, a movable boudoir is a prerequisite!!