The Big House tradition

DaireQuinlan

Interesting documentary piece here about a guy who's travelled the length and breadth of the country documenting "approximately 1,750 parochial houses, most of them Georgian and dating from between 1850 and 1920."

Irish Times wrote:

Travelling around the country from presbytery to presbytery he became “a very, very angry man” at the way “decent working people, devout Catholics, were treated”, he said. “I wanted evidence that couldn’t be refuted,” he said. He also believed that what he has put together on the website is “an important part of the social history of Ireland”.

Website here: http://crohane38.com/index.php?id=home

Irish Times piece here: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1107/1224307165443.html

pullandbang

Just had a quick gander at some of the shots and I'm wondering is he deliberately trying to make them look like bad scans or are they bad scans?
They seem to have blue "ink splashes" across them.

Interesting subject though and would make a fascinating archive.

Rain Dog

I think they're taken on film, developed and then scanned. The guy is 73 so the old school approach is understandable and also may account for the fingers across the lens, poor scans, off level horizons etc. Great project though, I like it.

EyeBlinks

Rain Dog wrote: »

off level horizons

:pac::pac::pac::pac:

alfalad

A lot of those houses would no longer by owned or occupied by the church, but his anger seems to stem from the fact they were built in the first place.

pullandbang

alfalad wrote: »

but he anger seems to stem from the fact they were built in the first place.

Huh?

alfalad

pullandbang wrote: »

Huh?

He mentioned that so many devoute Catholics were poor, but they gave the money to build the houses and that he had to emigrate with little education. Although a lot of people are struggling now there are less devoute Catholics.