Photograph

Collection object


2000.0546
Photo H. 46.5 W. 29.2 Frame H. 75.5 W. 52.9
Photograph, b/w, framed. Liam O Cathain (Bill Keane), uileann piper, Limerick, 1905. Studio full length portrait, subject seated with pipes, wearing a suit, white shirt and tie, gold Oireachtas medal (won that year) on his r. lapel, smaller pin or medal on opposite lapel. Subject with moustache and hair parted on l. and combed back. Floral wallpaper behind r., a classical column on square base l. Handwritten copperplate explanatory label on mount below, in Irish and English. Recent frame, narrow, black with gold inner and outer edging.