Find out the stories behind the Rose Shaw photographs! Local historian Katrina McCaughey and family members describe some of the family stories connect to Rose Shaw’s photographs.
In this short video Katrina tells us a little bit about Rose Shaw and how she came to take photographs of ordinary people in the Clogher Valley in the 1900s. In other videos Katrina will share stories about the people Rose photographed.
Mary Ann McElroy (Wife of Packie Edward) washing the clothes with her two younger children looking over the half door.
Mary & Ellen McCaughey working in the bog and cutting hay with a scythe.
Francis and Minnie McGovern are brother and sister. Often the door was taken of it’s hinges for the dancing to begin. Francis (aged 17 in 1911 census) and Mary Ellen (Minnie) aged 11 in 1911 census.
Annie Holland. A Gamekeeper and a mean shot!
PJ Mulrine talks about his great grandfather, Patrick Donnelly “Pat The Mason” who was photographed by Rose Shaw. Patrick was a stone mason, a farmer and also a local fiddler . He was born in Tawneymore in 1843 and Married Anne Cassidy in 1887.
Mary Shevlin, the stone she is sitting on can still be found today!
Katrina takes a closer look at some of Rose Shaw’s photographs and gives us some insight into the life of Margaret McCaughey.