![[Patrick Ford, head and shoulders, front facing oval portrait]](/IIIF/000640000/000638902/vtls000638902_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[Patrick Ford, head and shoulders, front facing oval portrait]
Photo by J. O'Neil.
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| In collection: | Irish Personalities Photographic Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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| Notes: | With facsimile of autograph. Includes name, logo and New York address of photographer on verso. Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/50407352212/ Physical description: 1 cabinet card : in mylar. b&w ; 16.5 x 10.8 cm ; more |
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I don't know who Patrick Ford might have been but he was a handsome, strong man with a striking set of eyebrows and penetrating eyes. Since we have been looking at buildings and places for the past week or so it is nice to have a personality to end the week.
Photographers: J Neill
Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection
Date: Undated
NLI Ref: NPA PERS17
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Tags:
Irish Personalities Photographic Collection, National Library of Ireland, Personalities, Ireland, Patrick Ford, portrait, Irish World
Comments
derangedlemur
He looks like one of those pictures of Voortrekkers you see in Pakenham's book. Probably not with a name like Pat Ford, though.
Posted: 02.10.2020
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Via Trove ...
PATRICK FORD (From the "Irish World") Full forty years of faithful toil, With the spirit of the true, Your valiant fight for home and soil Will always stand to you. You fought the battle of the brave And lit the light anew; You fed the widow and the slave - The soldier brave and true.See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/258461022?searchTerm=%... (1911, two years before his death) Short obituary from 1913 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149810835 including - " ... Patrick Ford, at the time of his death, was probably the most prominent Irishman in the United States, and as proprietor and editor of the New York "'Irish World," he exerted a powerful influence among Irish-Americans. He was a man of extreme views, and in the past advocated the use of dynamite for the settlement of Anglo-Irish problems, describing it as a "blessed agent" that could not be used to better purposes than to blow up the British Empire. Of late years, however, he moderated his views considerably, and was content to secure his aims by constitutional means. ... "
Posted: 02.10.2020
Foxglove
photo detail, his left pupil has been "burned" to enhance black, the other appears as more natural BW.
apart from eyebrows, as frequent in 19thoC male portraits - long ("filter feeding") moustaches were popular.
maybe it helped to hide bad teeth?
Posted: 02.10.2020
DannyM8
Did he own a Dog?
Posted: 02.10.2020
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
Posted: 02.10.2020
Clare4XRemvd
Yes, that’s Patrick Ford, editor of the Irish World, New York City. He used his newspaper to collect for the Skirmishing Fund, some of which funded the ‘O’Donovan Rossa phase’ of the Dynamite Campaign. Ford and Rossa were eventually ostracized by the Clan na Gael because they were too vocal and ill-disciplined. The Clan insisted on secrecy and allegiance. The Clan carried on with ‘Sullivan phase’ of the dynamite campaign.
Posted: 04.10.2020
Skirls&Chokes
His newspaper lasted into the late 20th century, I think the 1980's if I recall correctly, and I occasionally do. After mergers it ended with the longest newspaper title I've ever encountered: "The Irish World and Industrial American Liberator and Gaelic American".
Posted: 05.10.2020
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/156889413@N08] Thank you Ed, very educational as always!
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/thesixbells] Not only did it last a long time but it set a record at the end:-)
Posted: 06.10.2020
