In the summer of 1913, two Frenchwomen travelled to Ireland to capture on film a disappearing world, the results of which are on view at the National Photographic Archive, writes Gerard Moran
By the end of the 19th century the photographic image was increasingly being used to record a rapidly changing society and nowhere was this more evident than in the West of Ireland. The work of the Belfast photographer, Robert Welsh, his Castlebar-based counterpart, Thomas Wynne, and others provide us with a visual view that is as important to our understanding of the past as that of the newspaper reporter, the diarist, the traveller or the propagandist
