Interesting Black and White pictures ripped from the net

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Audrey shopping with her fawn:

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The Fieldbrook stump – Humboldt County, California



It would have been the biggest tree alive today had it not been so ignominiously felled in 1890 – reputedly to satisfy a drunken bet about making a table big enough to seat 40 guests from a single slice of tree-trunk.

And in case you wonder how they were felled:

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Ambrose Burnside.

Civil War General who coined the term 'Sideburn'

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The inside of the Cathedral of Amiens during WW2

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The Real Winnie the Pooh & Christopher Robin, ca 1927

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1913 – Two Civil War Vets remember

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Limerick Milk Market (Photo: Gerry Andrews, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland)


THE history of one of Ireland’s oldest markets has been brought to life in a new exhibition.

A total of 95 black and white portrait photographs make up a collection of images taken at Limerick’s Milk Market in the 1970s by award-winning social documentary photographer Gerry Andrews.

The pictures, some measuring seven feet high, are part of the ‘Shaped by History’ exhibition, which has been officially launched by the National Library of Ireland’s National Photographic Archive this week.


Old Moll (Photo: Gerry Andrews, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland)

Featured in the collection is the community of merchants, traders, children and characters of this historic Limerick quarter, taken between 1971 and 1978.

Photographer Gerry Andrews said: “Many years ago, I set out to capture the magic of the Milk Market, and quickly realised it was the people who made it unique; their honesty, integrity, and eagerness to share what little they had with those less fortunate than themselves.”


The animal lover (Photo: Gerry Andrews, courtesy of the National Library of Ireland)

The Milk Market, located in Limerick’s Irishtown area, was founded in 1852, as the west of Ireland was emerging from the famine of the 1840s.

The exhibition, a collaboration with the Hunt Museum, is the only Limerick of City of Culture event taking place outside the city.

Photo exhibition celebrates history of Limerick's Milk Market

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James Larkin
1876-1947


James Connolly said of Larkin, his colleague in the labour movement: "We have amongst us a man of genius, of splendid vitality, great in his conceptions, magnificent in his courage". GB Shaw described him as ‘the greatest Irishman since Parnell’.James Larkin was actually born in Liverpool but of Irish parents; he was raised in poverty and received little formal education. Forced into casual labour as a child, he had by his twenties found regular employment in the city’s docks. It was primarily from his personal experience of deprivation that he acquired his life-long commitment to revolutionary socialism, the destruction of capitalism, hatred of exploitation and strong identity with the underprivileged. He initially rose to prominence during a dock strike in 1905 and the following year was invited to become full-time organiser of the National Union of Dock Labourers (NUDL). Sent to Belfast in 1907, he was the first person to attempt to organise its unskilled labour force. He established a union branch which local employers sought to break by means of a lockout and a bitter dispute followed (May-November 1907). It ended when the NUDL leaders reached a settlement over his head.

In 1908 the NUDL sent Larkin to Dublin to mobilise port workers there but, feeling betrayed by events in Belfast and anxious to break free from British trade unionism, he established his own union, the Irish Transport and General Workers Union (ITGWU). Within three years it had become Ireland’s largest and most militant union and he himself had become the object of workers’ adulation. He was an inspiring orator, physically powerful, and tireless in his efforts on behalf of his workers. Seeking not only to improve their working conditions but also to restore their self-respect, he supported policies that promoted social equality and justice and encouraged cultural and social achievement. He rented accommodation in Clontarff and acquired Liberty Hall in 1912 as the union’s headquarters. In 1911, he established a weekly newspaper, the ‘Irish Worker and People’s Advocate’ which reached a circulation of 20,000 and was arguably the most effective propaganda sheet at that time in Ireland.

Meanwhile the ITGWU had succeeded in organising all the unskilled labour in the capital apart from the Corporation, the building trade, Guinness’ Brewery and the Dublin United Tramway Company (DUTC). Larkin’s confrontation with the DUTC precipitated the 1913 Dublin Lockout. The episode showed his courage perhaps more than his judgement, and illustrated the impetuous and unpredictable side of his nature. Defeat devastated his union. In October 1914, he left for the US to raise funds to rebuild it. Whilst there he opposed American entry into World War I, acclaimed the Russian revolution and was imprisoned for almost three years during the ‘red scare’ (1919) before being deported in 1923. Despite his strenuous efforts Larkin never regained his earlier domination of the Irish labour movement. His militancy led to his expulsion from the union he had founded but he was on two occasions elected to the Dail. He died in 1947

BBC - History - 1916 Easter Rising - Profiles - James Larkin

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The last ever public execution in the United States, 1936.

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it was the people (Of Limerick) who made it unique; their honesty, integrity, and eagerness to share what little they had with those less fortunate than themselves.”

It's always very moving to hear about the poor being so generous to others. I guess it's because they've known real suffering.
I think it was in The Grapes Of Wrath that Steinbeck described the same thing, when right at the end of the book, when a man is sick and starving, a woman who had lost her baby gave him her milk.

Though I am not Christian (I'm Buddhist), the truth in one Biblical statement has always given me pause for thought : "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God".
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It's always very moving to hear about the poor being so generous to others. I guess it's because they've known real suffering.
I think it was in The Grapes Of Wrath that Steinbeck described the same thing, when right at the end of trhe book, when a man is sick and starving, a woman who had lost her baby gave him her milk.

Though I am not Christian (I'm Buddhist), the truth in one Biblical statement has always given me pause for thought : "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God".

Very teary post, LD. It made me think of this interesting black and white video ripped from the net:

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Yves Klein:

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Miss Hepburn..

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Testing of a hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll.

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Shooting practice for German soldiers in 1935.

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Socialist Politician Asanuma as he was assassinated by 17-year old Yamaguchi in Tokyo, 1960.

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Miss Hepburn..

Bless her soul.

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German soldiers of war execute a communist in Munich, 1919.