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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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Photograph 5 in Glass album: view of ruinous Gweedore dwelling with twoman working in the ground in the forefront...

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Photograph 20 in Glass album: view of group of Gweedore dwellings and inhabitants...

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Photograph 35 in Glass album: view of road from Falcarragh with presbytery on right...

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Photograph 6 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwelling with woman and baby at the door...

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Photograph 17 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwelling...

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Photograph 37 in Glass album: side view of church with houses behind...

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Photograph 2 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwelling with occupants and potato ground to front...

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Photograph 36 in Glass album: distant view of church showing bridge and river...

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Photograph 18 in Glass album: view of group of Gweedore dwellings and inhabitants...

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Photograph 24 in Glass album: view of group of Gweedore dwellings and tree...

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Photograph 26 in Glass album: view of Gweedore church and environs...

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Photograph 1 in Glass album: view of Gweedore landscape with ruinous thatched dwelling in foreground...

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Photograph 32 in Glass album: view of chuch and wall...

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Red cloth album of photographs of Gweedore, Co. Donegal, and environs by James Glass, photographer, Londonderry, relating to notorious Land War murder...

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Photograph 8 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwelling with family at the door...

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Photograph 31 in Glass album: view of road to chuch showing bridge...

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Photograph 15 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwelling with mother and children at door...

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Photograph 22 in Glass album: view of group of Gweedore dwellings in r ocky landscape...

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Photograph 28 in Glass album: view of Falcarragh street showing houses and inhabitants and houses, with horse-drawn cart and passengers outside shop...

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Photograph 3 in Glass album: view of ruinous Gweedore dwelling with occupant...

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Photograph 19 in Glass album: view of group of Gweedore dwellings and inhabitants...

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Photograph 9 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwelling with man standing to left...

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Photograph 11 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwellings...

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Photograph 16 in Glass album: view of Gweedore dwelling with occupants...

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Photograph 23 in Glass album: view of group of Gweedore dwellings and inhabitants...

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