Framing the west : images of rural Ireland 1891-1920 /
editor, Ciara Breathnach ; foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
- Dublin ; Portland, OR : Irish Academic Press, 2007.
- xxi, 266 p. : ill. ; 18 x 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-257) and index.
\'All in a day\'s work\': Robert John Welch and his world / Vivienne Pollock -- Tuke\'s Connemara album / Sara Smyth -- Tools of the tourist trade: the photography of R. J. Welch in the tourist literature of late nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Connemara and the west / Marie Boran -- Ireland - in Birmingham / Maggie Burns -- Technologies and cultures: Robert J. Welch\'s western landscapes, 1895-1914 / Gail Baylis -- Picturing poverty: colonial photography and the Congested Districts Board / Justin Carville -- Robert John Welch, the accidental folklorist / Ciarán Walsh -- Fisheries in the west / Niamh Connolly -- Welch\'s Claddagh images / Lorna Moloney -- The agricultural work of the congested districts board / Jonathan Bell -- Smallholder housing and people\'s health, 1890-1915 / Ciara Breathnach -- Nurses and teachers in the west of Ireland in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries / Margaret Ó. Hógartaigh -- Occupied and earning: child, girl and women workers in County Donegal / Mary Clancy -- Well wear and soon tear : the clothes we once wore / Anne O\'Dowd.
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Welch, Robert John, 1859-1936. Tuke, James H. 1819-1896.
Photography--History.--Ireland
Ireland--Rural conditions. Ireland--Social life and customs--20th century. Ireland--Social life and customs--19th century.