© Examiner Publications (Cork) Ltd
This photo was taken in Glencar, Co. Kerry. It is a re-enactment of the public works 'road building' during the Irish Famine. The photo was taken on the remnants of an actual famine road. The model is wearing an old potato sack, an original hat from the famine and a torn trousers, bare foot as they were. There is little to no photographs of this time in our history. Thousands of Irish perished building 'roads no nowhere' in ice cold weather conditions.