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James Glass Album

James Glass was a commercial photographer from Derry City. His album of photographs of Gweedore was commissioned to inform the defence in a landmark murder trial during the Irish Land Wars. Its graphic images of the bleak conditions endured by poor rural tenants was instrumental in swaying a potentially hostile jury to sympathy .

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