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Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:
Bathing in Bray Baths beats bathing on Bray Beach
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- Niall McAuley said:
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- Suck Diesel said:
Yes Maam
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Suck Diesel said:
The Galway Shawl
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Suck Diesel said:
"She wore no jewels, nor costly diamonds,
No paint nor powder, no none at all,
But she wore a bonnet with ribbons on it,
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Suck Diesel Can you sing that song?
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John Spooner said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons As sung by Dermot O'Brien on the LP Ireland's Best vol. 4 yours for £1.25 (Newry Reporter 18/5/1972)
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Suck Diesel said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons No, but who better than Daniel?
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beachcomber australia said:
"Francis Patrick Mary[?!] Browne, SJ, MC & Bar
(3 January 1880 – 7 July 1960) was an Irish Jesuit and a prolific photographer. ..."
In 1939 -
via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Browne -
John Spooner said:
From a report of an exhibition organised by the Photographic Society of Ireland in the Irish Independent - Friday 22 April 1938
Another bronze medal went to Rev. F. M. Browne. S.J.. for a portrait study, "Officer of the Watch" (237)—a ships officer gazing out on a darkening sea from a moving liner. I liked the epic of modern industrialism. "A Temple of Ceres" by the same exhibitor, which had a "Commended" label on it'
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John Spooner said:
Wicklow People of Saturday 13 June 1936 had an article telling readers what could be found in the June issue of Irish Travel magazine, including:
An interesting feature for amateur photographers by the Rev. F. M. Browne. S.J. is entitled "When ,you are in the Train, where is your Camera'?" illustrated be a photo of Nenagh showing the church and Ormond Tower as taken front the window of a railway carriage while the train was in motion.
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Carol Maddock said:
beachcomber australia One, if not two, of my brothers has Mary as a middle name. Common back in the very Catholic with a Big C days.
Colonial Style in Greystones
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Paul McNamara said:
La Touche Hotel, closed in 2004, has recently been developed into appartments.
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Suck Diesel said:
In 1919, the hotel was the site where Michael Collins proposed to Kitty Kiernan.
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Suck Diesel said:
See also
catalogue.nli.ie
Th Grand Hotel in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, which opened in 1894.
Designed by architect William M. Mitchell, it was known as the largest hotel in County Wicklow by 1915.
The building was renamed the La Touche Hotel in 1959
www.wicklow.ie
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Niall McAuley said:
The NIAH says Detached multiple-bay part four-storey part three and a half-storey part render part brick eclectic style hotel, built c.1900 to designs by McCurdy & Mitchell.
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Niall McAuley said:
The dia, often better with exact dates, says New hotel in Elizabethan style. 38 bedrooms. Begun, May 1893. Opened 2 Jun 1894.
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Niall McAuley said:
Not much to date this one, but the lady in the deckchair looks 1910ish.
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Niall McAuley said:
Streetview of the back
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beachcomber australia said:
How delightfully confusing! The building has TWO facades. This Eason is the sea side, and the Lawrence linked above is the other side. Similar but very different; I thought someone had renovated.
William Murphy has both facades in 2013 ... [https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/9248856255/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/infomatique/9251590284/] -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Paul McNamara Thank you. Good to know it's still standing.
Residents of Ballıkpınar Village, movie screening, 1930s
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Can Candan said:
Carbon Arc Can you identify the exact model of the Victor projector and the dates it was in circulation? Thank you!
JIMS or is it JIVS?
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John Spooner said:
Dundee Courier - Tuesday 30 September 1930 mentions a Mrs Villiers Stuart of Dromona (present at the Stirling County Ball).
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John Spooner said:
Fun fact: Henry Villiers Stuart of Dromona was Lord Lieutenant of the County Waterford in 1832 (Saunders's News-Letter - Tuesday 31 January 1832)
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John Spooner said:
Mr J. Villiers-Stuart took part in the opening meet of the West Waterford Hounds at Clashmore in 1948 (Waterford Standard - Saturday 13 November 1948) "With the exception of a shower, the day was fine and a big field enjoyed a good day’s sport."
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John Spooner said:
Not just horses. At the 15th joint show and sale of bulls under the auspices of the Irish Dairy Shorthorn Breeders' Society, Co. Waterford and Co. Wexford branches,
the silver cup for the best pure-bred Aberdeen Angus bull was won by Mr. J. I. Villiers Stuart, Dromana, Cappoquin, for Qualitys Ever Reliable, a bull calved in March last
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Suck Diesel said:
www.irishtimes.com
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Suck Diesel said:
James Ion Villiers-Stuart?
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beachcomber australia said:
Hmmm - not 100% sure, how about ...
Ion Henry Fitzgerald Villiers-Stuart was born on 23 November 1900. He is the son of Major Henry Charles Windsor Villiers-Stuart and Grace Frances Newman. He married Elspeth Richardson on 15 February 1928.
He lived at Dromana, County Waterford, Ireland.
Child of Ion Henry Fitzgerald Villiers-Stuart and Elspeth Richardson
James Henry Ion Villiers-Stuart b. 30 Nov 1928
See (also the rest of the families) - www.thepeerage.com -
beachcomber australia said:
[Oops, nearly forgot] 12 May 1925 was a Tuesday ...
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beachcomber australia said:
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From the thankfully non-megazoomable - catalogue.nli.ie
Castles galore on the rocky old shore
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beachcomber australia said:
Phew, I wasn't dreaming - here is the previous reverse view - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/52689470716/]
Unidentified house in Toowoomba, Queensland
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Eric Dyson said:
And on the right it seems like it is a near replica
Photograph of the Abraham Lincoln Statue Installation in the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 1920
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David Enzel said:
This is an amazing photo. Thank you for sharing it on Flickr.
Married Navy Doctor Captains Hold Rare Dual Retirement Ceremony 260702-N-MJ645-1015
from Navy Medicine
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k said:
Amazing
No sign of my wife, Dr. Watson!
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beachcomber australia said:
So I was wondering what Franfort Moore might have to say about his contemporary Oscar Wilde. 'A Garden of Peace' (1920) does not disappoint; I don't think they were Best Friends Forever ...
" ... Two brothers, Willie and Oscar Wilde, earned many dinners in their time by their conversational abilities; and I happen to know that before going out together they rehearsed very carefully the exchange of their impromptus at the dinner table. Both of these brothers were brilliant conversationalists, and possessed excellent memories. They were equally unscrupulous and unprincipled. The only psychological distinction between the two was that the elder, Willie, possessed an impudence of a quality which was not among Oscar's gifts. Oscar was impudent enough to take his call on the first night of Lady Windermere's Fan smoking a cigarette, and to assure the audience that he had enjoyed the play immensely; but he was never equal to his brother in this special line. Willie was a little over twenty and living with his parents in Dublin, where he had a friendly little understanding with a burlesque actress who was the principal boy in the pantomime at the Gaiety Theatre. She wrote to him one day making an appointment with him for the night, and asking him to call for her at the stage door. The girl addressed the letter to “Wm. Wilde, Esq.,” at his home, and as his father's name was William he opened it mechanically and read it. He called Willie into his study after breakfast and put the letter before him, crying, “Read that, sir!”
The son obeyed, folded it up and handed it back, saying quietly,—
“Well, dad, do you intend to go?”
To obtain ready cash and good dinners, Willie Wilde, when on the staff of a great London newspaper was ready to descend to any scheming and any meanness. But the descriptive column that he wrote of the sittings of the Parnell Commission day after day could not be surpassed for cleverness and insight. He would lounge into the Court at any time he pleased and remain for an hour or so, rarely longer, and he spent the rest of the day amusing himself and flushing himself with brandies and soda at the expense of his friends. He usually began to write his article between eleven and twelve at night.
Such were these meteoric brothers before the centrifugal force due to their revolutionary instinct sent them flying into space.
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jessamyn west said:
Thanks for this, I've added it to his Wikipedia page
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
jessamyn west You're very welcome!
Two women fishing, New South Wales, 1939 SLNSW_FL9689515
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Josef... said:
This B R I L L I A N T S H O T was seen in
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Jean Jacques Debuchy said:
This B R I L L I A N T SHOT was seen in
brilliant flickr
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Luigi Mirto/ArchiMlFotoWord FIAF/AFI-UIF said:
This B R I L L I A N T SHOT was seen in
brilliant flickr
...your brilliant shot! thx for sharing!
Photographer with camera, Sydney, 1939
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Francesco Dini said:
Love the details ✨
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Michael Gschwind said:
Glückwunsch zu Explore !
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Jil Garcia said:
Congratulations on explore
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Markus Preiser said:
What a fantastic shot. Congrats on Explore!
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Francesco Dini said:
Congrats on making Explore! 🎉✨ 👏 - A pleasure to view 😊
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laurie mccarty said:
Great shot!! Congrats on Explore!!
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Sigurd Krieger said:
Congrats on Xplore!!
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Matti Torilla said:
Your wonderful capture was seen in Black & White Photos
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Flickr said:
Congrats on Explore! ⭐ July 3, 2026
Wind Tunnel Dome Stadium
from SDASM Archives
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Mark Trotter said:
This is a model of the Super Dome in New Orleans and an adjacent hotel (Hyatt Regency New Orleans).
Soviet Era ugliness up the Boro
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bobgbennett said:
The corner tower does have the specific look of 1944 Atlantic Wall (Normandy) gun emplacements about it.
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bobgbennett said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons Love the humour! When I was a young soldier the Bedding Store lady who used to exchange our sheets for a clean issue was Mary from Co Dublin and we all adored her for the good craic every time we saw her.
Offices of the Sydney Harbour Trust at Beresford Chambers, 30 Castlereagh Street, Sydney (NSW), decorated for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York .
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covid convict said:
I think Beresford Chambers might have been built in the mid-later 1880s, but I'm not sure on this...in ca. 1914 it was acquired by the Australian Metropolitan Life Assurance Co, after which it was known as the Metropolitan Building...later still it was acquired by the GSB...it was demolished in ca. 1922-23...I think it might have initially been a casualty of the construction of the new GSB...but in any case it would have been demolished for the Martin Place extension...
Good view of the location in this ca. 1892-93 pic taken from the GPO tower
www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53729164236/
Also see comments/links at this SLNSW Hall & Co photo of Castlereagh St, which looks to have been taken in 1922, before Beresford Chambers and the other buildings in the row were demolished...
www.flickr.com/photos/193158484@N02/53771331173/
jfi...the building to the right of Beresford Chambers is the of the Australian Star newspaper building...it was built in ca. 1895...it later became the office of the Australian Star and the Sunday Sun. In ca. 1918 it was rebuilt to house the Sun newspaper...
trove.nla.gov.au - the original Australian Star building appears in this NLA Fairfax pic...
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [A wide-angle view of marchers along the mall, showing the Reflecting Pool and the Washington Monument.], 08/28/1963
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Donald Gibson said:
Always listen to what the people are saying👍
THIS IS AMERICA... WHERE YOU VOTE AS YOU PLEASE, 1941 - 1945
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Donald Gibson said:
Happy Birthday folks. Have a great weekend👍
2026-053
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Paul Hellyer said:
This is truly amazing. A real work of art. Congratulations!
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California (LOC)
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swanq said:
See
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David Valenzuela said:
It's a shame my mother in law passed away a few years ago she might have like to have seen these Fox Theater Pics she actually lived in Bakersfield for a time long before I was born.
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David Valenzuela said:
I was in Bakersfield once but never saw the Theater of course I only stop on the outskirts of the town.
Pete Seeger at Library of Congress Bicentennial (LOC)
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ysella said:
Superb. 🎶 ❤︎
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California (LOC)
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swanq said:
Old box office kiosk at Fox Theater
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Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California (LOC)
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swanq said:
See the floor between the old kiosk and the doors.
modern Streetview
Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California (LOC)
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swanq said:
This looks as though it is the floor near the main entrance.
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Fox Theater, Bakersfield, California (LOC)
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swanq said:
The tower is still there.
2026 Streetview
Delightful new form of holiday making - Cruising!
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
mikeyashworth Like it or not, you are now our official Cunard expert. :)
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Carol Maddock said:
I love that someone, maybe Tom Johnson himself, jotted down calculations of crew numbers.
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John Spooner said:
I'll make a bid for 1934. In the Coventry Evening Telegraph -of Wednesday 21 February 1934 is an advert for Cunard's cruise to Portugal & Spain on the Lancastria, leaving Liverpool on March 29th, and visiting Lisbon and Vigo, price 10 guineas (which match the details on page 2 of the leaflet).
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
John Spooner We will take that bid of 1934, thank you.
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John Spooner said:
And here's the itinererery
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John Spooner said:
Illustrated London News - Saturday 9 October 1926:
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beachcomber australia said:
Trove amazes again!
Pilot Officer Ivan Auliff (Royal Air Force) writes to his father in Australia telling of his survival -
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mikeyashworth said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons I'd be very careful calling me an expert on anything (well other than London Underground stations!). 1934 is quite plausible - I wonder what issue of ILN the original illustration appeared in as this brochure would be ante-that date? Lancastria is noted for several 'special' cruises such as a 1934 tour of WW1 battlefields in the eastern Med; and in 1936 there was a special sailing for Lancastria from Dublin for a Pilgrimage for the Boy Scouts of Ireland - I quote from the Lancastria's Archive;
"In 1936 Cunard arranged for Lancastria to sail to Dublin for a special cruise taking the largest contingent of pilgrims from Ireland to Rome. Among them was Ireland’s former Leader, William T. Cosgrave. At that time Lancastria was the biggest vessel to dock in Dublin. British Movietone News covered the story in a newsreel and showed several close-ups shots of Lancastria both aboard and from the quayside."
It also appears that Lancastria usually sailed from Liverpool with a 'Northern' passenger list and I note the tale of 'passengers appearing in their clogs'; after all we've collectively said about cost/prices and class! Needless to say as a Lancastrian by birth and being from a clog wearing family - I've only recollections of folk getting as far as the Isle of Man ferry!
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
mikeyashworth Not great quality, but here is a departure from New York in August 1927, from Digital Collections of the University of South Carolina.
Old Pro Golf, space course. Astronaut, Ocean City, Maryland (LOC)
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Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga said:
I think that's Paul Bunyan under that helmet!