The Eviction: A Scene from Life in Ireland – Historic Print
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A window into the past: The Eviction: A Scene from Life in Ireland, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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The Eviction: A Scene from Life in Ireland
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The title frames this as a single moment: a family being put out of their home, shown as a "scene from life" rather than a grand historical event. Scenes like this were common in Irish life through the nineteenth century, when tenant farmers who fell behind on rent could be removed by landlords or their agents, and the crisis of the Great Famine in the late 1840s drove evictions to new heights. Images of this kind often circulated to show the human cost of those landlord–tenant arrangements, so it is worth looking closely at the faces, the belongings on the road, and the people standing by.
| Original scan | 8,468 × 6,705 px · prints to 28 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 01258u |
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