The Square, Rathdowney, Co. Laois, 1990

Taken by photographer, Matilda Cooney, who noted that the scene was "pretty much unaltered"...You can compare this view of The Square at Rathdowney with its companion photo ( nlireland/8166240548 ) taken approximately 90 years earlier as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland...For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog ( 2012/04/13/then-then-and-now-photographic-projects/ ) ...Date: Tuesday, 4 September 1990 at 10:45 (weather conditions - sunshine)..NLI Ref.: LPP_31/5 ( vtls000355043 )

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