Anyone know what the paper in the man’s hand is? Is it land deed or something? People these days would not last a week in the conditions those brave people lived through. I’m guessing that woman would have been in her 30’s during an Gorta Mór.
Lived through a famine, born near enough a famine. Think this photo is in Ennis.
That woman probably lived through the famine and her son might well have lived to see the Easter rising. Funny how lifetimes can span different eras
No carrying much extra weight compared with today.
her clothes are very interesting, the light shawl, whats it made of , local sheeps wool , its handmade anyway probablyby herself?
The son has a bit of a threadbare scholarly vibe off him
obviously had lived through tough times
What always strikes me about old photos like these is the thought that they must have felt very modern and at the top of their time with a camera in their face and getting a picture done of them in their fashion.
And here we are looking back at that ancient picture, ourselves feeling very modern. In 100 years time people are going to look at our photos are artefacts with the same feeling that we have towards these folks here.
Compo face
In this photo she is 45 and the son is roughly 23
Interesting fact, the mother is the one with the beard
How old would these people approximately be? Mother 70s and son 50s?
She’s probably 50 and he’s 30.
“I’m not old, I’m thirty seven.”
Wow. People were so much older back then.
Undeniably Irish head on yer one
Just in case anyone ever doubted how poor and impovrished we were back then. Never forget what we had to fight for in this country, never forget how we were treated like human Cattle by the landowning British class. It seems some have already and we are slowly slipping back towards such situations, where the working poor are at the behest of an increasingly small but increasingly powerful landlord class.
Property should not be an investment vehicle, a roof over your head should be a right for all Irish citizens. We need to get rid of the neoliberal traitors in charge of this country who betray every principle it was founded on.
The conditions those poor people lived through. God bless them. We’re standing on the shoulders of giants.
How dare you assume their gender
Maybe it’s the beard but he looks older than her
I thought that said 1980 for a second haha
I suspect the son was not married, as the mother was alive and “there can be only one woman in a house”.
Apparently one of my ancestors could only get married at 56 years old – after the mother died – for exactly that reason.
Evidence that fake tan has been in use on this island for a long time. Who would have known all those girls painting themselves orange were traditionalists.
Enoch Burke vibes
Reasonably well dresses, wearing shoes too.
The man may have been literate given he’s holding a pamphlet or book.
Not sure how common reading glasses would have been back then.
It’s a great picture.
30 and 14 years old respectively.
Thanks for sharing. The left woman reminds me thinking of my grandgrandma. They lived through famine so harsh time.
Rocking that cardigan. Is that a Yeezy Season 5?
So staying out of the sun doesn’t prevent wrinkles.
I wonder if they were very poor by the standards of the time. They both have shoes, and the woman has a bonnet.
He could have got up to let his poor old mother sit down
She’s only 63 and he’s 39
Posted on Instagram by a Cavan family last Tuesday.
47 and 23 years of age.
Can we just accept that the joke is “She’s only x years old and he’s only y” and move on? We can all agree it’s hilarious
More like a ‘mummy’ and son.
They look alright. I’d give them another 50 years each.
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She’s only 19 …. life was hard back then.
Mother is the one on the left.
She’s 43 and he’s 22.
Queue deluge of unoriginal jokes about their age.
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Still living with his Mammy last I heard
Anyone know what the paper in the man’s hand is? Is it land deed or something? People these days would not last a week in the conditions those brave people lived through. I’m guessing that woman would have been in her 30’s during an Gorta Mór.
Lived through a famine, born near enough a famine. Think this photo is in Ennis.
That woman probably lived through the famine and her son might well have lived to see the Easter rising. Funny how lifetimes can span different eras
Image in colour: https://imgur.io/CaaUxeL?r
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poor bastard
No carrying much extra weight compared with today.
her clothes are very interesting, the light shawl, whats it made of , local sheeps wool , its handmade anyway probablyby herself?
The son has a bit of a threadbare scholarly vibe off him
obviously had lived through tough times
What always strikes me about old photos like these is the thought that they must have felt very modern and at the top of their time with a camera in their face and getting a picture done of them in their fashion.
And here we are looking back at that ancient picture, ourselves feeling very modern. In 100 years time people are going to look at our photos are artefacts with the same feeling that we have towards these folks here.
Compo face
In this photo she is 45 and the son is roughly 23
Interesting fact, the mother is the one with the beard
Both dead now I believe. Very sad.
I can see where we get our glorious looks from!
The guy looks like Teddy from [Fear The Walking Dead ](https://walkingdead.fandom.com/wiki/Theodore_Maddox_(Fear))
How old would these people approximately be? Mother 70s and son 50s?
She’s probably 50 and he’s 30.
“I’m not old, I’m thirty seven.”
Wow. People were so much older back then.
Undeniably Irish head on yer one
Just in case anyone ever doubted how poor and impovrished we were back then. Never forget what we had to fight for in this country, never forget how we were treated like human Cattle by the landowning British class. It seems some have already and we are slowly slipping back towards such situations, where the working poor are at the behest of an increasingly small but increasingly powerful landlord class.
Property should not be an investment vehicle, a roof over your head should be a right for all Irish citizens. We need to get rid of the neoliberal traitors in charge of this country who betray every principle it was founded on.
The conditions those poor people lived through. God bless them. We’re standing on the shoulders of giants.
How dare you assume their gender
Maybe it’s the beard but he looks older than her
I thought that said 1980 for a second haha
I suspect the son was not married, as the mother was alive and “there can be only one woman in a house”.
Apparently one of my ancestors could only get married at 56 years old – after the mother died – for exactly that reason.
Evidence that fake tan has been in use on this island for a long time. Who would have known all those girls painting themselves orange were traditionalists.
Enoch Burke vibes
Reasonably well dresses, wearing shoes too.
The man may have been literate given he’s holding a pamphlet or book.
Not sure how common reading glasses would have been back then.
It’s a great picture.
30 and 14 years old respectively.
Thanks for sharing. The left woman reminds me thinking of my grandgrandma. They lived through famine so harsh time.
Rocking that cardigan. Is that a Yeezy Season 5?
So staying out of the sun doesn’t prevent wrinkles.
I wonder if they were very poor by the standards of the time. They both have shoes, and the woman has a bonnet.
He could have got up to let his poor old mother sit down
She’s only 63 and he’s 39
Posted on Instagram by a Cavan family last Tuesday.
47 and 23 years of age.
Can we just accept that the joke is “She’s only x years old and he’s only y” and move on? We can all agree it’s hilarious
More like a ‘mummy’ and son.
They look alright. I’d give them another 50 years each.