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| Keywords: mitchelstown cork ireland munster donkey cart barrell boy dog police barracks r.i.c. ric royal irish constabulary royalirishconstabulary carcases butcher apron smoking pipes delarue grocer tobacco snuff fabric material birds plan of campaign planofcampaign no surrender nosurrender o'sullivan osullivan pollard bran oats grafitti shutters robert french robertfrench william lawrence williamlawrence lawrence collection lawrencecollection glass negative glassnegative 1880s upper cork street uppercorkstreet thomas delarue thomasdelarue maurice o'sullivan mauriceosullivan kingston estate kingstonestate 1887 june william davis williamdavis countess of kingston countessofkingston national library of ireland nationallibraryofireland evictions blackandwhite monochrome building architecture outdoor black and white Feeling some performance anxiety because this photo is very special - it's our 1,000th photo on Flickr Commons! However, it's also special in that it's a quite rare (we think) capture of an eviction in a town. Most that we have are in rural settings. We thought this may have been taken in September 1887 around the time of the "Mitchelstown Massacre", but as always, research here was a great help in establishing a more likely date of June 1887... The Plan of Campaign was an attempt to gain lower rents through collective bargaining, because prices for agricultural exports had fallen dramatically in the 1880s. Date: Circa June 1887 NLI Ref.: L_ROY_01083 Feeling some performance anxiety because this photo is very special - it's our 1,000th photo on Flickr Commons! However, it's also special in that it's a quite rare (we think) capture of an eviction in a town. Most that we have are in rural settings. We thought this may have been taken in September 1887 around the time of the "Mitchelstown Massacre", but as always, research here was a great help in establishing a more likely date of June 1887... The Plan of Campaign was an attempt to gain lower rents through collective bargaining, because prices for agricultural exports had fallen dramatically in the 1880s. Date: Circa June 1887 NLI Ref.: L_ROY_01083 | ||||
