• "Mary - you're front and centre" - guliolopez
  • "Joseph - sit on the chair so we can see your leg straps. That's a good.. eh.. girl..." - guliolopez
  • "You two. You're our scruffy sheperds. You stand over there..." - guliolopez
  • "Angel! Get up on the chair at the back..." - guliolopez
  • "Hmm. I like the costume Phillipa. We'll make you Herod's wife or a wise-man or something. Don't worry" - guliolopez
  • "OK Jeannie - well done. You'll make a fine innkeeper's wife. Stand over there..." - guliolopez
  • "I don't know what you're supposed to be Bridget. You can stand in the picture, but take this note home to your mother. I want to speak to her first thing in the new year!!" - guliolopez
  • Can't help but think of Terry Jones dressed as a woman in innumerable Monty Python sketches. - turgidson

December 23, 1930

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Pupils of Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Faith school at Rosbercon, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Looks as if they were dressed up for a Nativity Play, but what the hell was the Wicked Witch of the West doing as part of the cast?

Date: 23 December 1930

NLI Ref.: P_WP_3785

*Wondering*Alice*, Pinkolive Hax, Abaraphobia, pennylrichardsca, and 129 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  1. pennylrichardsca 17 months ago | reply

    Maybe it was an early multicultural pageant, and she was La Befana?
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana

  2. National Library of Ireland on The Commons 17 months ago | reply

    Ooooh! Should have remembered! Spent Christmas in Rome a couple of years ago, and was astounded at all the witches on sale on street stalls alongside cribs, etc.

  3. John Edward Ewing [deleted] 17 months ago | reply

    Very nicely taken. Nice Place. They are Beautiful. A lovely Crew & I believe that one is not a young lady - - -

  4. Spinool 17 months ago | reply

    love this

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  5. Dr. Dan ( WumbaLumbaL ) 17 months ago | reply

    thanks for sharing ( :

  6. paulharrishimself 17 months ago | reply

    The Wicked Witch of the West, 4th from left back row, was trying to put a hex on Tall-Mary O'Hara, 3rd from left back row, to prevent her from copping the Guiness Book of Records title of the Tallest Sot in the West.

  7. National Library of Ireland on The Commons 17 months ago | reply

    Always nice to see our photos taking on new life, and thanks for letting us know!

  8. P.G.M. Photography. (BATH) 17 months ago | reply

    Very interesting photo.Pity there are no smile's.

  9. National Library of Ireland on The Commons 17 months ago | reply

    Girl up the back is *almost* smiling!

  10. poetikat46 8 months ago | reply

    Perhaps she was one of the Wise Men, but they only had a costume left over from another play. Can't see the Catholics allowing anything secular into a Nativity Play.

  11. Josep Ventura 8 months ago | reply

    Good Photo
    Invite the grup
    www.flickr.com/groups/2065545@N24/?added=1

  12. enu fan 8 months ago | reply

    i like it

  13. victor98_2001 8 months ago | reply

    excellent shot

  14. witchyzing 6 months ago | reply

    Maybe she was not the Wicket Witch of The West. Maybe she was a pagan.

  15. MAYHEMmunkee 5 months ago | reply

    whoa

  16. kadesh1509 5 months ago | reply

    Oh!! milacle!!!

  17. tlwmdbt 6 days ago | reply

    hogwarts

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