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 Album

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