page_title: Irish International Exhibition
section_title: Summary
hierarchical_section_title: Irish International Exhibition / Summary
caption_attribution_description: There may have been no cup after yesterdays All-Ireland match but there is no shortage of them here! A fine display of pottery and that lovely, old and now rarely used word, "Delph", reminding us of a town in Holland. With thanks in particular today to everyone, including [/photos/gnmcauley/ Niall McAuley], [/photos/91549360@N03/ O Mac] and [/photos/beachcomberaustralia/ beachcomber], there seems to be a solid consensus, supported by circumstantial and documentary evidence, that this Mason image was related to a display at the 1907 Irish International Exhibition. An exhibition we've visited before. Perhaps the most telling clues are the contemporary news article (catalogued by our friends in the National Library of Australia), that beachcomber highlights, and which seems to paraphrase the signage we see in this image, and the contemporary guidebook which [/photos/129555378@N07/ sharon.corbet] mentions below.... Photographer: Thomas H. Mason Collection: Mason Photographic Collection Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910. Most likely c.1907 NLI Ref: M9/14 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
context_page_description: The Irish International Exhibition was a world's fair held in Dublin, Ireland, in 1907, when the country was still part of the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: The decision to hold the exhibition was taken at the Irish Industrial Conference in April 1903, and inspired by a small exhibition in Cork (the Cork International Exhibition) 5 years earlier. The 1907 exhibition was intended to improve the trade of Irish goods.
  The leading force behind the project was William Martin Murphy, a businessman and owner of the Irish Independent, Clerys department store (Clery & Co.), the Dublin United Transport Company and several other Irish and overseas ventures. Other organisers included the Irish journalist William Francis Dennehy.
  The exposition ran from 4 May to 9 November 1907,
  received 2.75 million visitors covered 52 acres and made a loss of about £100 000 sterling, although this was underwritten by guarantors.
  As well as contributions from countries including Canada, France and New Zealand there were displays of motor cars, electric and gas lighting and machinery; fine art displays including work by Eva Henrietta Hamilton; funfair amusements; a display depicting life in British Somaliland, the 'Somali village', was the exhibition's most popular attraction.
caption: Pottery exhibit at the Exhibition
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