Market Square, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, 1991

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Market Square, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, 1991


Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Taken by photographer, Padraig J. Laffan, who noted: "Catholic Church is on left where tress are, building in distance (Clerys) now gone."

You can compare this view of Bagenalstown with its companion photo (taken approximately 100 years earlier) as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

The photographer recorded conditions as cloudy, but bright.

Date: Thursday, 16 May 1991 at 16:05

NLI Ref.: LPP_77/21A

Demolition


Image by National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Looks like demolition, or at least extreme gutting, of buildings on Charlotte Street, Dublin. There’s a sign for Charlotte Place at the right of this photo, but I couldn’t for the life of me find a trace of either still existing. Asked in anyone knew where this Dublin street was, and thanks to Irish251 for this snippet from Wikipedia’s page on Dublin’s Portobello area:
"Starting in the 1980s Kelly’s Corner was re-developed. Old Camden Street and Charlotte Street disappeared and the ruined buildings there made way for the Camden Court Hotel. The north side of Harcourt road was developed, Stein’s the opticians being the last to go in the first phase, and Gleeson’s pub in the second."

Thanks also to A. P. Luckwill for this edited Google Map showing where Charlotte Street was. And decided I better do some work myself, so here’s Charlotte Street on the always excellent OSI site.

MKSeery has helped out by researching the Kavanaghs on Charlotte Street in the 1911 census, and found:
"Looking at 1901 census, James Kavanagh (27) was a hair-dresser on Charlotte St. He wasn’t married. He had three sisters Mary (31) Kate (29) and Ellen (17). By 1911, James married and had two daughters Ellen (3) and Martha (1).

I suppose it seems more likely that the daughters rather than the sisters became the "Kavanagh Sisters" in 1964?

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Building on MKSeery‘s investigation, I had a bit of a peruse in the online census and found in 1911 at 8.1 Charlotte Street, we’ve Ellen (3) and Martha (1). At 8.2 Charlotte Street, there’s also Willie Kavanagh, a "male relative" listed as a "Hairdresser Improver" so obviously hairdressing was in the Kavanagh blood.

By 1964, Ellen and Martha would have been 56 and 54 respectively, and there may even have been other Kavanagh girls (not born in 1911) who made up the team at Kavanagh Sisters…

Waltzer found a great shot of this street in Dublin Public Libraries Vanishing Dublin set (click on Original, bottom right).

Date: 1964

NLI Ref.: WIL 1[3]

Aircraft Accident


Image by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives
Catalog #: 10_0013717
Title: Aircraft Accident
Additional Information: Ford Trimotor
Tags: Aircraft Accident, Ford Trimotor
Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive

Market Square, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, 1991