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Photograph of a woman knelling at the O?Flaherty grave.
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Collection Ritchie Pickow
Title Photograph of a woman knelling at the O?Flaherty grave.
Description Photograph of a woman knelling to pray at the O?Flaherty grave in Kilmurvey graveyard on the Aran Islands. In the centre foreground is a high cross gravestone, with railings around the plot. A woman in black, with her head covered by a shawl, kneels just inside the railing, to the left of the headstone. The vast cloudy sky frames the woman and the gravestone.
Date 01/01/1952
Date Issued 07/01/2022
Resource Type Still image
Archival Record Id p100110
Publisher University of Galway
Extent 60x60mm
Topic Cemeteries,Women,High crosses (Sculpture),Morning customs,Burial
Geographic Inishmore (Ireland),Aran Islands (Ireland)
Temporal Nineteen fifties,Twentieth century
Genre Black and white
Creator / Author Name George Pickow