{"id":903,"date":"2012-06-08T12:43:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T12:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/54.229.91.100\/libraryandarts\/library\/ehistory\/?p=903"},"modified":"2024-06-24T12:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T11:41:29","slug":"rarely-seen-kildare-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/rarely-seen-kildare-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"RARELY SEEN KILDARE PHOTOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong>Rarely seen Kildare photos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>James Durney<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Chapman Collection is a unique collection of photographs spanning the half-century from 1907 to 1957. Robert L. Chapman (1891-1965), a keen photographer and cyclist, began taking photographs at the age of sixteen. As Chapman cycled the Irish countryside, he photographed a range of subjects from boats and trains to landscapes and buildings, as well as his family, friends and fellow cyclists. He also photographed historic events such as the burning of Dublin\u2019s Custom House.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">In 2008 Collins Press published a collection of Chapman\u2019s photographs drawn from an archive of 3,000 pictures. Robert L. Chapman\u2019s Ireland. Photographs from the Chapman Collection 1907-1957, compiled by Christiaan Corlett, has four, rarely seen Co. Kildare photographs:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Cathedral and Round Tower, Kildare, taken at 11 a.m., on 10 April 1910.<br \/>\nAthy Bridge, River Barrow, and White Castle, taken at 2.15 p.m., on 24 August 1919.<br \/>\nBlackchurch Inn, Naas Road, County Kildare, taken at 9.30 p.m., on 20 June 1922.<br \/>\nW. J. Taafe on tricycle outside the Covered Coat public house near Leixlip, Co. Kildare, during Irish Road Club 50-mile race, taken at 5 p.m., on 9 July 1927.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The Genius of Fr. Browne. Ireland\u2019s photographic discovery, compiled by E. E. O\u2019Donnell, SJ (Wolfhound Press, 1990), has two Co. Kildare portraits:<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>\u2018The Poacher\u2019 at Straffan (1925).<br \/>\nJames Farrelly from the Wood of Allen (1929).<br \/>\nMadam Uniacke. A fond memory<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong><em>Photographs from the Chapman Collection 1907-1957, compiled by Christiaan Corlett, has four, rarely seen Co. Kildare photographs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Photographs from the Chapman Collection 1907-1957, compiled by Christiaan Corlett, has four, rarely seen Co. Kildare photographs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}