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With a nod to Thomas Hardy's novel "Far from the Madding Crowd", this image of a crowd of people outside the "Asylum" in Carlow. Asylums, aka Psychiatric Hospitals, were supposed to be a place of safety for the mentally ill but in accordance with the times staying there became a stigma. Interestingly the word "Asylum" has taken wings today, and is applied with the same pejorative vigour to those who seek it!
Look for the wise man who has found a nice shady place to wait things out?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_CAB_07971
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De rivier “Barrow“ vormt meerdere kilometers lang een natuurlijke grens tussen de Counties (provincies) Kilkenny en Carlow in Ierland. Nergens kan men dat duidelijker zien vanaf het Coolnamara viewing point. Links is Kilkenny, rechts is Carlow. Gezien en gefotografeerd op een heerlijke dag in maart 2000.
Der Fluss Barrow trennt die Irischen Counties (Bundesländer) für mehrere Kilometer. Nirgendwo kann man das besser betrachten als vom Coolnamara viewing point nahe Ballykeenan.
An einem sonnigen Tag in März 2000 stand ich auch da und konnte die wunderschöne Aussicht genießen.
The river Barrow forms a natural border between the counties Kilkenny and Carlow in Ireland for several miles. This can be seen perfectly from the Coolnamara viewing point near Ballykeenan (with county Carlow being to the right of the river and county Kilkenny to the left). Seen and shot on a beautiful day in March 2000.