Photos: First Original Colour photos Of Galway in the summer of 1913

Main Ni Tuathail, a 14 year old girl. Taken at the Claddagh Galway 26 May 1913

Fishermen in Spiddal with a boy dressed as a girl. It was cheaper and the custom. 31 may 1913

Cutting turf in Connemara 29 May 2013

Woman and child in Claddagh Galway. I May 2013

Man with turf in Spiddal. 1 May 2013


*All of these photos were taken by Marquerite Mesprulet and Madeline Migon Alba, two French women. They are also the first known original colour photographs ever taken in Ireland, and some of the cultural images here had changed little until recent times.
Barry