Old Ireland in Colour by John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley

Author:John Breslin & Sarah-Anne Buckley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Merrion Press
Published: 2020-09-22T00:00:00+00:00

ERIN’S SONS AND DAUGHTERS

1903, Ballidian, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan

Girls playing ‘Green grow the rushes, O’ while boys do gymnastic exercises and the teacher watches outside of Ballidian National School. Stereographs, or stereoviews, date back to the late nineteenth century, where two separate photographs were taken by cameras in slightly different positions but pointing at the same objects. A special viewer (basically a set of spectacles mounted on a stick, with a holder for the stereograph photo card at the end) allowed one to view the scene with a sort of 3D effect. They were very popular with Irish emigrants, who could reminisce about home. We are told by locals that the teacher’s name was Mrs Rowland, and the tall girl was a monitor named Letticia Young.

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