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'Young Firbolgs' Aranmore
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Collection Balfour Album
Title 'Young Firbolgs' Aranmore
Description Large group of children, both boys and girls, mostly facing camera. They are standing in front of a cottage whose partially white-washed gable is visible. Many of the girls are wearing white pinafores. Some of the boys are wearing traditional Aran kintted clothing. Welch's use of the word "Firbolgs" in the caption possibly refers to the legendary motif that the Aran islands was the last bastion of the Firbolgs a small dark race of people subsequently defeated by the Tuatha de Danann in Irish myth.
Date 01/01/1894
Date Issued 24/08/2015
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id P28/18
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 285x365mm
Topic Children,Cottages,Clothing and dress
Geographic Aran Islands (Ireland),Ireland
Temporal Nineteenth century,Eighteen Nineties
Genre Black and White photograph,Group portraits
Creator / Author Name Robert John Welch