Corrymore under the lee of the hill

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A significant collection of buildings on the island of Achill under the slopes of a bleak and rocky hill with the name "Corrymore". Probably a single homestead and that of some significant local personage, perhaps even a national one with notions given the flagpole beside the house? What makes this image especially significant is the presence of two dogs - WOW!

Photographer: Robert French

Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection

Date: Circa 1865 - 1914

NLI Ref: L_ROY_00194

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    DannyM8

    • 03/Aug/2023 08:23:11

    Two Dogs! You were up early today to pick this one.

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    suckindeesel

    • 03/Aug/2023 08:46:28

    “former residence of Captain Boycott,” and artist Robert Henri

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    O Mac

    • 03/Aug/2023 08:47:26

    The gates and posts have since been replaced with the more carefree hanging loose type. maps.app.goo.gl/s79NQgvQfvm7bgkJ8

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    John Spooner

    • 03/Aug/2023 08:48:34

    The terrain looks similar here, but no buildings visible (just hints of maybe) Streetview ?

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 03/Aug/2023 08:49:55

    The NLI is ALWAYS amazing!! In 1990 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000355202

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    suckindeesel

    • 03/Aug/2023 08:52:14

    Have you ever heard of a turf amphitheater? www.archiseek.com/2015/1941-open-air-theatre-achill-co-mayo/

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    John Spooner

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:09:03

    Mayo Constitution - Tuesday 7 October 1862Mayo Constitution - Tuesday 07 October 1862

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:13:54

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Cheap CHOPS!!

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:18:44

    Painting by ALEXANDER WILLIAMS RHA 1846-1930 'Corrymore, Achill Island' Oil on canvas, 24 x 44.5cm (9½ x 17½ ") Hammer price €130 Via - www.adams.ie/67032/ALEXANDER-WILLIAMS-RHA-1846-1930-Corry... Includes this - "This is a view of Corrymore House near the village of Dooagh on Achill Island. The house was built in 1845 for the Blacker family and it was later the home of Capt. Boycott, a British land Agent, whose ostracism by the local community as part of a campaign for tenants rights in 1880 gave the English language the verb 'to boycott'. It was later the home of the famous American artist Robert Henri who first rented the house in 1913 and finally bought it in 1924. He spent every summer there from then till his death in July 1929. When not trout fishing, he spent his time painting the portraits of the local village children of Dooagh which now grace the walls of museums worldwide."

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:26:21

    Was Boycott the land agent or the land owner? https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:30:22

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 I had not heard of a turf amphitheater, very interesting.

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:35:32

    We were very close to here a few years ago. https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/28739417497

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    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:39:43

    [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Land agent according to - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott#Life_on_Achill_Island

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    John Spooner

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:46:17

    In 1891 the building was visited by a party of eight, one of whom, Mrs Pattisson, whote an account of the trip and referred to the owner/tenant as "her friend Mrds O'D____", The account formed the basis of an article in the Kilkenny Moderator on Saturday 6 June 1896 .

    This lodge, the writer tells us, formerly belonged to the famous Captain Boycott. To reach it the party had to pass through the quaint, poverty-stricken village of Doonskilla and Keel; also the quaint, poverty-stricken village of Dooagh, where they were received by pleasant voices on all sides bidding them "welcome to Dnosgh." Here they were joined by Jack Gaughan, the guide, important personage. whose portrait appeared in the Graphic sometime since, a fact of which be is very proud. At length after a stiff climb up the cliffs—the sea lying some live hundred feet below—they reach at sunset their destination, Corrymore lodge, where the caretaker, Mrs. Li—, has all due preparations made for the visitors.
    The writer also mentions seeing a ruined building which was where Capt. Boycott lived before he moved to Corrymore.

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    John Spooner

    • 03/Aug/2023 09:55:18

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland This is what 'Spectator' had to say about the amphitheatre's architect in the Irish Independent on 26 November 1941

    Versatile Corkonian CHRISTMAS-BORN Noel Moffet, son of a Cork business man, is an architect, working just now on the Dublin Corporation Town Planning Scheme, He got his Degree at Liverpool University, his inspilration from studying under famous Russian architect Serge Chermayeff, in London. Staying last winter on Achill Island, he built the first Open Air Theatre in Ireland, behind Corrymore House. A tall, slim, young man of 28, Mr. Moffet has no time for arty-artyness, He portrays the Irish good earth, naked and unashamed, in all its enthralling beauty and unending variety. This is the Ireland which we should export abroad.

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    suckindeesel

    • 03/Aug/2023 10:14:43

    Captain Boycott, the movie! youtu.be/pkM5sKKXvrI

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 10:53:15

    Arty-artyness! https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 10:54:29

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 You will get me sacked it's 1h 29m!!!

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    suckindeesel

    • 03/Aug/2023 11:23:09

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/47290943@N03/ I actually saw it as a child, Sunday matinee, 10d

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    O Mac

    • 03/Aug/2023 11:29:19

    I wonder when the fancy entrance was built... it's there today and in the William's painting that [http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/] linked above. County Mayo maps.app.goo.gl/SEqYdcP59S4So9xA7

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    John Spooner

    • 03/Aug/2023 12:41:51

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland 'arty-artyness' - I've had another look at the newspaper, and 'arty-' is at the end of one line and 'artyness' as at the beginning of the next, as if the typesetter decided to split the word over two lines, then decided not to, but didn't clean up afterwards. 'arty-fartyness' would also make sense.

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 12:48:59

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner It would make more sense.

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    National Library of Ireland on The Commons

    • 03/Aug/2023 12:49:20

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/91549360@N03 your guess is as good as mine.

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    Carol Maddock

    • 03/Aug/2023 12:55:42

    Pee yesterday. Farts today. This place is going to hell in a handbasket! And I love it... :D