Old Photo-unknown

I picked up this family portrait today at a thrift store, it would be nice to reconnect it to the family if there are interested descendants of the people in the photo. It appears to me to be late 1800's or early 1900's. There is a father and 6 children: 3 boys, 2 girls, and an infant I cannot determine the gender of. There is no mother, so it may be that the mother died giving birth to the infant. My guess is Irish or Irish-Americans but I could be quite wrong on that. It has been mistreated over the years: there are very old water stains, it was broken in half and taped up on the backside decades ago, has been sold at least twice, and a child (presumably a child) at some point added bangs, extra hair, and eyeballs with a pencil to the family members.