Work

Photograph of men working on a currach on the Great Blasket Island

Shelf Mark/Reference Number

• IE TCD MS 11332/49

Creator

• Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909, Photographer

Contributor

• Synge family, Donor

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.48495/1r66j1238

Rights statement

• Copyright The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Images are available for single-use academic application only. Publication, transmission or display is prohibited without formal written approval of the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Date Created

• approximately 1900

Language

• English

Abstract

• Mending, or possibly making, a currach or naomhóg on the Great Blasket Island. Island men and boys gathered around the wooden frame of a boat. The roof of a cottage with whitewashed gables is visible in the background on the left, 13-27 August 1905. Description based on information found in My wallet of photographs: the collected photographs of J. M. Synge, arranged and introduced by Lilo Stephens (Dublin: Dolmen Editions, 1971).Date: approximately 1898-early 1900s.

Collection title

• Papers of John Millington Synge

Series title

• Papers of John Millington Synge: photographs

Provenance

• Donated to the Library of Trinity College Dublin by the Synge family.
• Synge family, Donor

Subject

• Photography--Ireland
• Ireland--Pictorial works
• Ireland--History--20th century
• Kerry (Ireland)--Pictorial works
• Blasket Islands (Ireland)--Pictorial works

Keyword

• Unassigned

Format

• Photographs
• photographs

Culture

• Irish

Digital Object Id

• MS11332_49

Source

• 0086290

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Relationships

Parent works and subseries:

• Papers of John Millington Synge: Photographs

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