photograph album / Coolgreany Eviction Album, 1887

Photograph in album depicting the evictions at Coolgreany, on the Brooke Estate, North Co. Wexford, 1887. Family photograph, taken outside a cottage. Pat Kavanagh and his parents at Fortress Kavanagh, Croghan (handwritten caption). With two young children. November 1887. Part of an album containing forty-seven photographs of Irish eviction scenes of the 1880s. Front cover missing. A copy of this album is also in the National Library of Ireland, where is is catalogued as having been compiled by a T. Mallacy, also probably the photographer, who gave it to Fr Farrelly, who was involved in the Plan of Campaign in the Wexford area. His grand-niece donated the album to the NLI in 1992.;