Stella Maris Hotel, Kilkee, Co. Clare, late 19th century

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 01:55:33 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Tourists and locals taking their ease outside the Stella Maris Hotel in Kilkee. Hope that's a sleeping dog in the foreground...

This photo was taken in the late 19th century, probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin.

You can compare this view of Kilkee with its companion photo taken approximately 100 years later as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Date: 1890???

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_04233

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Stella Maris Hotel, Kilkee, Co. Clare, late 19th century