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redto

Ok blatently copied from the biker ie web site but I think it might be worth a look.
between 1870 an 1914 a man named Lawrence took ovre 19000 photographs around Ireland. The National Gallery have catalogued them and they can be found at the below link. sorry its so long copy n paste.
Anyhow you can search by location where he took the picture. I have found a number he took in towns close by so I intend to go and try an recreate the shot if possible. Be interesting to see what if anything has changed.
Maybe post the shots on here or somewhere.

http://catalogue.nli.ie/Search/Results?lookfor=&filter[]=collection%3A%22Lawrence%20Collection%22&filter[]=format%3A%22Photo%22&filter[]=digitised%3A%22Digitised%22

IamBlip

I dont think that exact link is working but I was able to navigate the website to find the photos.

The Dublin photos are fantastic, the Zoo's are eye opening, St. Stephens Green and adjacent streets are really interesting too. Many statues around Dublin city have long since gone.

Others that spring to mind are of the Glencar waterfall recently posted here also a damaged celtic cross in Monistorboice.

hmboards

What a great collection. I've seen several of them before, but to have them all on display and grouped by town is fantastic. Must have a go at some of the local ones.

magicbastarder

odd, i always thought lawrence had been a priest.

hmboards

I thought he just collected them, but it seems he had a studio and photographer staff. Robert French was the photographer for most of the collection :

http://www.lawrencecollection.com/about.htm

redto

the priest that took all the photographs was father browne




http://www.fatherbrowne.com/

PicturePerfect

Wow. I spent quite some time browsing through the pictures of Kerry (as I'm not as familiar with the rest of the country. Me = foreigner!) and it's amazing the way it used to look... Some of the buildings that look very old there, are barely even there anymore these days. Buildings that are brand new there, look so deteriorated now (off course they do).... Thanks for posting that link. Felt a bit of the magic of how it used to be.

Mountainsandh

Thanks for sharing that, love the old pics, and love to have plenty to look at !

For those interested, there is a great archive of old photographs on the Dungarvan Museum website, Co Waterford of course, a lot of interesting pics there.
http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org/exhibit/web

JayEnnis

There's a lot of locations which I've actually photographed myself in Wexford that appear in the archives. Its crazy how much things have changed!





That's the exact same bridge from a slightly different angle.

DougL

It's a shame the Lawrence Collection images are so small in the online gallery. It's hard to see any detail at all, or even get a sense of them. I know they have to protect their cash cow...but seriously.

-Doug