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."
Publisher
NUI Galway Library
Date
1894
Contributor
Welch, Robert John (1859-1936) (Photographer)
Format
nonprojected graphic
285x365mm
Type
StillImage
black-and-white positive
Coverage
Ireland, West of
Aran Islands
Europe--Ireland--Galway
53.1058010150, -9.6655916466
19th century