Photographs

  1. M004.24.00029

    M004.24.00029

    1955

    Informants: Robert Mc Cormack and young Jack Smyth, Island Schoolmaster, Rathlin.

  2. M004.24.00030

    M004.24.00030

    1955

    Informants: Jack Smyth, school-master on Island and Robert Mc Cormack, Rathlin.

  3. M004.24.00037

    M004.24.00037

    1956

    Informants (L to R): Hugh and Albert Rourke (brothers). Hugh wears a sailor's cap - local term is "deep sea cap", Ballintoy.

  4. M004.24.00038

    M004.24.00038

    1956

    Informants: David Donegan (narrator) of Ballintoy.

  5. M004.24.00039

    M004.24.00039

    1956

    Informants: Jack Donnelly, aged 63, Blacksmith. Last farrier in the area. He used to go to Rathlin to shoe horses. No farrier now within sixteen miles of Ballycastle.

  6. M004.24.00040

    M004.24.00040

    1956

    Informants: Jimmy Walsh makes the "charm" or "cure" of a sprain in foot, ankle, wrist or arm. Ballinlae, The Carns.

  7. M004.24.00041

    M004.24.00041

    1956

    Informants: Jim McCaughan, Mullarts, Ballycastle. Horse and cart. Few of the old "stiff" farm carts remain now.

  8. M004.24.00042

    M004.24.00042

    1955

    Informants: Michael Leach in 1955, Glenariffe.

  9. M004.24.00043

    M004.24.00043

    1955

    Informants: Michael Leach as a young man with sheep, Glenariffe.

  10. M004.24.00044

    M004.24.00044

    Informants: Michael Leach's father, Glenariffe.

  11. M004.24.00045

    M004.24.00045

    1955

    Informants: Mickey Joe Anderson with ochre grinding stones. (In National Museum of Ireland.)

  12. M004.24.00046

    M004.24.00046

    1956

    Informants: School children from Glenshesk school.

  13. M004.24.00047

    M004.24.00047

    1955

    Informants: Margaret McCurdy's home (had died March 1955).

  14. M004.24.00048

    M004.24.00048

    1955

    Informants: Two Rathlin sisters.

  15. M004.24.00049

    M004.24.00049

    Informants: John Heggerty, Rathlin Island.

  16. M004.24.00051

    M004.24.00051

    1956

    Informants (L to R): John Scally, Alec McCormick, Mary Clarke in Clarke's public house bar in Anne Street, Ballycastle.

  17. M004.24.00052

    M004.24.00052

    Informants: Michael Leach, The Bay, Glenariffe.

  18. M004.24.00053

    M004.24.00053

    1955

    Informants: Francey Campbell, native of Lisnahuncheon, Portglenone.

  19. M004.24.00054

    M004.24.00054

    1956

    Informants: Jack Coyle of Bayview Rd., Ballycastle. He runs the mail boat to Rathlin. (His father, Johnny Coyle, ran it previously.)

  20. M004.24.00055

    M004.24.00055

    1956

    Informants: Mrs. Gillan, native of Lixnaw, Co. Kerry.

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Archival Reference

The Photographic Collection, M004.24.00030

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