Photographs

  1. B039.15.00001

    B039.15.00001

    1935

    Seaweed gathering: Gathering seaweed, Annagassan.

  2. B039.18.00008

    B039.18.00008

    1947

    Seaweed gathering: Ráca feamnaí, Feothanach.

  3. B039.18.00009

    B039.18.00009

    1947

    Seaweed gathering: Ráca feamnaí, Feothanach.

  4. B039.18.00010

    B039.18.00010

    1947

    Seaweed gathering: Ráca feamnaí, Feothanach.

  5. B039.18.00011

    B039.18.00011

    1947

    Seaweed gathering: Seaweed rake.

  6. B039.19.00006

    B039.19.00006

    1935

    Seaweed gathering: Kelp kilns and kelp stacks drying. Traces of bleached carrageen moss visible also.

  7. B039.19.00007

    B039.19.00007

    1935

    Seaweed gathering: Kelp drying on walls. Traces of bleached carrageen moss visible also. Two-man currach in foreground.

  8. B039.19.00008

    B039.19.00008

    1935

    Seaweed gathering.

  9. B039.19.00009

    B039.19.00009

    1935

    Seaweed gathering: Kelp kiln, kelp drying on walls. Kelp and carrageen moss stacks (thatched). Traces of bleached carrageen moss visible also.

  10. B039.19.00010

    B039.19.00010

    1935

    Seaweed gathering: “Out for carrageen picking"- harvesting carrageen seaweed.

  11. B039.19.00011

    B039.19.00011

    1935

  12. B039.19.00012

    B039.19.00012

    1935

    Carrageen pickers on the shore.

  13. B039.24.00001

    B039.24.00001

    Sea-weed gathering: Metal rod used for stirring during kelp-burning, Rathlin Island.

  14. B039.24.00002

    B039.24.00002

    1956

    Seaweed gathering: "The May Fleece" - seaweed or wrack washed up on beach during heavy seas and high shores (surf) during May. "The sea cleans itself."

  15. B039.29.00001

    B039.29.00001

    1949

    Sea-weed gathering: kelp stacks and kelp kilns.

  16. B039.29.00002

    B039.29.00002

    1949

    Seaweed gathering: Kelp stacks and kelp kilns. Bodógaí agus áith ceilpe.

  17. B045.01.00002

    B045.01.00002

    Flax, linen: Weaver, Carraroe.

  18. B045.18.00001

    B045.18.00001

    1947

    Flax / linen: Slis (beetle), Dunquin.

  19. B045.18.00002

    B045.18.00002

    1947

    Flax / linen: Slis (beetle), Dunquin.

  20. B045.29.00002

    B045.29.00002

    1949

    Flax, linen: Flax wheel, 'tuirne beag'.

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Archival Reference

The Photographic Collection, B039.18.00008

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