Archive picture can tell a thousand stories ...

A wealth of fascinating detail can be seen on this archive photo taken on a sunny summer's day in Skibbereen in 1912.   

Huddled outside the town hall you can see (below) a group of older women in the traditional West Cork hooded cloak.

They are assembled below pasted-up posters promoting upcoming auctions and local businesses. Alongside them is a poster that probably advertises for transatlantic crossings on a White Star Line vessel, maybe even the Titanic, which made its last stop in Queenstown (Cobh), Co Cork days before its demise in April 1912.