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The first Irish photographs date from 1840, a year after Louis Daguerre announced to the world his discovery of the photographic process. In the century that followed, Irish political life was dominated by the struggle for land rights, for Home Rule and finally for independence. Ireland was to know tragedy and triumph, bitter struggle and agonized compromise. Much of that experience, now so remote, is brought to life here in images. Yet these photographs, which cover the first century of Ireland in the era of photography, do more than tell the political story. They give a wider insight into a people, a landscape and a lost way of life. They capture the sheer hard labour of rural survival: cutting peat for fuel, gathering seaweed, fishing and tilling the soil - against the often harsh Irish landscape. They also show the grandeur, elegance and complacency of life in the Big House, home and symbol of the doomed Anglo-Irish elite.
Contents
Introduction The Act of Union * Glimpses of the PastPhotographs * Framing the Irish Landscape 1. The Way It Was The Great Famine * Evictions * The Land War * Living off the Land * Rural Commerce * Religion and Recreation 2. The Big House The System of Landed Estates * The Ascendancy * The Big House * Life on the Estate * Debt, Decline and Dispossession 3. The Political Story The Irish in the British Empire and Army * Towards Home Rule * Militant Unionism * The 1916 Rising * The War of Independence * Partition * Civil War 4. Towards a Modern Ireland Southern Agriculture and Ulster Industry * The Expansion of Rail and Road * Emigration * Belfast Shipyards * Urban Living
