Ireland in the 1890's. A country that had gone through wrenching change in the previous 40 years and that would go through much more in the decades to come. This collection of postcards and pictures date to that time and show how, despite the distance in time, it is remarkably like our own. As tourism made its first stirrings these postcards and pictures were produced as collectable mementoes. What is remarkable is how so little has changed; pictures of the cities are instantly recognisable while the popular tourist sites of the 1890's - The Cliffs of Moher, The...
Ireland in the 1890's. A country that had gone through wrenching change in the previous 40 years and that would go through much more in th...