Combining family lore with source documents, Ed O’Shaughnessy posits that the famous photographs of the Vandeleur Evictions in the Lawrence Collection - believed to have been taken by Lawrence’s photographer, Robert French - were in fact taken by a Limerick man, Timothy O’Connor. Clare County Library is grateful to Ed O’Shaughnessy for donating this article, which was first published in the Other Clare, Vol. 39 (2015) pp. 41 – 52.

Photographing the Evictions on the Vandeleur Estate, Kilrush, July, 1888 (PDF)

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