Main Ní Tuathail, a 14 year old girl from the Claddagh wearing traditional Claddagh dress, Galway, 1913. The Claddagh was a fishing village close to Galway city. The people of Claddagh lived quite separately from the city of Galway and retained their Gaelic customs, language and dress well into the 1930's.
This is one of the earliest colour photographs captured in Ireland, taken by French photographers Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba on May 26, 1913.