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gjrk Dec 28, 2006 11:12:14

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It's a book that I have seen many, many references to. Webster, writing in the JCHAS in 1930, refers to an illustration of Ahaglaslin, but says that Borlase failed to locate Bohonagh. O'Nuallain notes him as a previous visitor to quite a few circles, including Maulatanvally ('near Lettergorman'), Templebryan and others in north west Cork.
If you get a chance would you be able to post some drawings from the Cork area? I know you've got 1001 things to be doing, so there's no rush. I'd appreciate the chance to see what the last 100 years of farming has done.
Incidentally, what is the position with posting plans and pictures from the older books and journals? I have a number of plans of west cork circles by Somerville, Fahy and O'Riordain as well as sketches by Webster. Are there any legal restrictions about putting up someone else's work, even from long ago?

FourWinds Dec 28, 2006 15:48:02

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gjrk wrote:

Are there any legal restrictions about putting up someone else's work, even from long ago?

Plans - You can redraw a plan from someone else's plan and put 'After Fred Smith' or whatever as a credit.

Old drawings from books - the copyright is valid for 70 years after the death of the author of the book or the artist that did the drawing, whichever is the later date - however, if a recent book publishes a copy of a drawing from a much older book then it's a little blurred. Really the new rendition of the drawing is under copyright, but I doubt anyone would sue if they were re-used - especially in a non-profit situation. Please don't rely on my word for that though, as I said - it's a grey area.

FourWinds Dec 28, 2006 15:56:04

Replying to gjrk

gjrk wrote:

If you get a chance would you be able to post some drawings from the Cork area? I know you've got 1001 things to be doing, so there's no rush. I'd appreciate the chance to see what the last 100 years of farming has done.

I will do so at some point. I'm struggling to find a good technique for 'lifting' the images at the moment. It's an extremely rare book and I don't feel like putting it face down it on my scanner and buggering up the spine :-) At the moment I'm photographing the pages and cropping to the images, which is a little time consuming.

There are a few Cork sites in there. I haven't really had chance to look through it thoroughly yet, so I don't know everything that's in there. There is one great illustration of a (now lost) tomb from Dublin city centre. It's the most geometric drawing of a monument I've ever seen, with tall cones for uprights/entrance stones and a cuboid for the its gallery. I assume it was a wedge tomb, but we'll never know for sure. The exact location where it stood is sadly lost too.