IDNO

P.7460.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: 3 men, side, Inishmaan.

Half-length seated profile portrait of three men from Inishmaan, with Michael Connelly in the centre. The men are in order of age from an older man on the left, middle aged man in the centre, and a young man on the right. All three men wear buttoned jerkings over patched jackers. [JD 3/4/2009]

Place

Europe British Isles; Ireland; Galway; Aran Islands; Aranmore; Inishmaan

Cultural Affliation

Inishmaan

Named Person

Michael Connelly

Photographer

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort [Aran Island 1890 - 1891]

Date

1890 - 1891

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon CollectionHaddon’s Aran Photographs

Source

Haddon, Alfred Cort (Dr)

Format

Print Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Cropped image of central man, alongside cropped image of frontal portrait, P.7459.ACH1, published in A.C. Haddon and C.R. Browne, 1893, ‘The Ethnography of the Aran Islands, County Galway’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Third Series, Vol. 2, pp.768-830, plate XXIII.5 with the following caption:
“Michael Connelly, No. 10, Inishmaan. A burly man, with the largest head measured in the Middle Island.” [JD 9/4/2009]