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Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:

All ready to dance the Charleston

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 23 older comments, and then…
  • Debbie Gear said:
    Hi, my name is Debbie Johanna & that's my grandmother in the photograph. It's a wonderful picture. My mam looks so like her when she was that age.

Am I seeing double once again?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • Dave Ryan said:
    Rory Sherlock
    You are right. You can see the outline of the old boathouse here on this photo i took (link below). At the bottom of the photo is the river entrance, the boathouse outline is still cut into the bank. On the right of the old boathouse is one of the drop off points the boatmen still use to stop at for tourists. The angle of the photo posted would have hidden the tower behind the tree.

Abraham Lincoln conducts routine operations 251017-N-XR642-1024

from Navy Medicine

  • lameato feliz said:
    Excellent

The Raftice Family of Mullinavat

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 25 older comments, and then…
  • Claire O connor said:
    My grandmother was a Raftice of Mullinavat, she lived there until her passing 12 years ago. There are still some Raftices in Mullinavat.

Take yer pick of the Lamb or Bullock?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 8 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Top left says Old Mill on Poddle River, Dolphin's Barn, 1893.

    Which confused me, as I didn't think the Poddle flowed through Dolphin's Barn.

    But looking at the 6" and 25", I see Rutland Mills, with a mill race coming from the Poddle.

    The mill would have been at the junction of Rutland Avenue and Clogher Road.

    In Google's aerial view linked below, you can still see where the mill race left the Poddle beside (now) Mount Argos Square
  • Suck Diesel said:
    maps.app.goo.gl/TSmqP2cmPxpkpP4H8
    Bottom right

    Perhaps top right refers to Emmet’s hideaway, not Lord Edward?
    If so, that house is long gone
  • Niall McAuley said:
    On the 6", the stone which splits the Poddle is marked as Tongue and the small townland Tonguefield.

    But in Google maps, it is marked as Stone Boat, which is where the Kimmage pub gets its name.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    " ... Arrest and death
    Lord Edward's hiding place with the feather merchant Nicholas Murphy was betrayed to the spymaster Francis Higgins (qv) by the secretive catholic barrister Francis Magan (qv), who received the £1,000 reward. At seven in the evening on 19 May, an arrest party led by Major Sirr (qv) burst into his upstairs room at 151 Thomas Street in the heart of the Liberties. FitzGerald fiercely resisted arrest, killed one man with his dagger, but sustained serious injuries himself when Sirr shot him in the shoulder at point-blank range. He was taken to Dublin Castle and then jailed in Newgate. ..."
    From - www.dib.ie/biography/fitzgerald-lord-edward-a3138

    See also - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Edward_FitzGerald#Arrest_and_d...

    Hmmm ...
  • Architecture of Dublin said:
    "House at Harold's Cross Bridge, Dublin where it ____ Lord Ed Fitzgerald was concealed"

    A pair of twin Dutch Billy's near Harold's Cross bridge with a cruciform roof plan, long since demolished, I wonder how long they lasted. I don't recall ever seeing them or that particular photo before. Likely on the Northern side of the bridge anyway.
  • Architecture of Dublin said:
    Bottom left image, looking from Fade Street towards South Great George's Street

    View today: maps.app.goo.gl/njRsX4uNJKWr45mm9

    It was where Bartholomew Mosse opened his first maternity hospital on George's Lane in 1745 in an old theatre. It later became the lying-in hospital and what we know today as the Rotunda.
  • Architecture of Dublin said:
    beachcomber australia He seems to have hid at a lot of places, the below link says he was a wanderer and spent some time at Harold's Cross and later also at Aungier Street, later moving to a house close by the Portobello Hotel

    www.google.ie/books/edition/A_Compendium_of_Irish_Biograp...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    In 1901, John and Dora Gaynor, confectioners, are still at #55 South Great George's Street.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Charlotte Doran is at #57, with son Michael.

Ukas bilde/Photo of the week 19/2012

from Arkivverket (National Archives of Norway)

  • 4 older comments, and then…
  • Sergio Darío said:
    Emocionante...

Lloyd J. Harriss Pies (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Bart King said:
    "Hey guys, did I tell you that I got a cherry and a mike stand for our next battle? That's right: Bought a bing, bought a boom!"

    (collective groan, angry muttering)

    "Lol, but seriously, I've decided to enact a new Continental Army policy about cherry trees: Don't axe, don't tell!"

    (crew mutinies)

Ryan Spirit of St. Louis

from SDASM Archives

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Addam McNeel said:
    My great grandfather is Oliver McNeel. I did a project on him when I was in 8th grade. I had a copy of his pilot license signed by Orville Wright. If anyone has anymore information about O.R McNeel that would be appreciated

Executions are no joke!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Fake news
  • Foxglove said:
    there is a glitch with Flickr today - feeds are hosting "recommended photos" rather than "favoured users"
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Foxglove Yes, spotted weirdinesses alright.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I see a crop of this pic online with the rightmost two prisoners captioned John Charles Keegan (right) with Eamon De Valera from a photo taken in Arbour Hill prison 1924
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Somewhere reputable? The Long Fellow, certainly. Interested to hear more about John Charles Keegan...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    If so, the left prisoner would be Austin Stack.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    irp.cdn-website.com/9a9d8ae7/files/uploaded/MurderInMohil...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    There is another shot of them sitting down, captioned Stack and Dev, here:
    irishvolunteers.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DEV-STACK-...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The nli has diaries of Austin Stack 1924-25, which the catalogue says Diaries of Austin Stack April 1924 - June 1925, (include references to his imprisonment with Éamon De Valera

Ireland's tallest ladder or longest drainpipe?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 31 older comments, and then…
  • billh35 said:
    Sometimes I talk complete nonsense. On doing some more digging (metaphorically speaking that is) I wondered why there were disparaties about the section of track on Chichester Street to Victoria Street. I have uncovered that although planned for the 1905 electrification, this section of track had been authorised in the 1872 Act and 1904 Act for construction but had not been built under either authority and powers had lapsed. General Manager William Moffett felt that the cost of £900 would be a sound investment in providing a second city crossing and would considerable relieve traffic at "Castle Junction". The line opened in December 1924 - so many apologies for causing such confusion! (Hangs his head in shame and exits gracefully stage left)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Sometimes billh35 is amazing !!

Collage portrait with dangling heads, in Alfred William Leslie Ellis. World War One Album, c. 1917

from State Library of New South Wales

  • 1 older comment, and then…
  • Philippe de Feluy - PdF said:
    This is a high quality photo and I would like to invite you to my group :
    Atypical & Montages/collages PdF

    Friendly yours
    Philippe 😉
  • Tebo Colombet said:
    J'adore absolument 💙
  • Flickr said:
    Congrats on Explore! ⭐ November 17, 2025
  • Cornelis Dumoulin said:
    Congratulations on this photo in Explore!
  • Michael Gschwind said:
    Glückwunsch zu Explore !
  • Sigurd Krieger said:
    Congrats on Xplore!!
  • Mr. Happy Face - Peace :) said:
    Excellent Share 💫 Thank You
  • Lukas Larsed said:
    Congrats on Explore 📷
  • PaulSheff said:
    Beautifully captured and faved 🌟 Congrats on Explore 📷✨ Have a nice day 👍

Methodists stand firm in Clontarf

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Built 1905
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the NIAH: Corner-sited cruciform-plan Methodist church, built 1906

    and

    Built in 1906 on the site of a church of 1867 this church was dedicated in June 1907.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    maps.app.goo.gl/84D5qTD26oUUHbem6
  • beachcomber australia said:
    17:32 ish. Parallax error ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing!
    In 2008 via Pedro García The corner boy has turned into a mature lady!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    In 1911, here is William B. Lumley, Methodist Minister, Clontarf.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Nice Lucy box.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Short history - methodisthistoryireland.org/churches/Clontarf%20Methodist...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    What date ranges are Lucy boxes? We haven't tripped over too many of them.

Lionel Van Praag, 20 December 1940, Sydney, by Robert Rice

from State Library of New South Wales

  • Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies said:
    In 1942 Van Praag was awarded the George Medal for bravery during World War II, when a Royal Australian Air Force Douglas DC-2, in which he was second pilot was shot down, by two Japanese aircraft over the Sumba Strait in Indonesia. Van Praag, a sergeant at the time, and the aircraft captain, Flying Officer Noel Webster helped two colleagues—one semi-conscious and the other a non-swimmer—to shore after spending thirty hours in the water during which they had to fight off several shark attacks. After the war, Van Praag participated in one more speedway championship, but retired in 1950 to concentrate on his career as a pilot.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Van_Praag
  • State Library of New South Wales said:
    Blue Mountains Library, Local Studies 👍

3rd LCT conducts squad attacks 251007-M-DT244-1478

from Navy Medicine

Oh where the Shannon River flows

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Portrait: Popplewell, Nina

from LSE Library

The Ladies and the Tramp (steamer)

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 18 older comments, and then…
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Not our trawler here, and outside the date range, but the fishy tail, nonetheless, of the first case of a charge brought for illegal fishing within Irish waters, a Grimsby steam trawler in Castletownbere.

    www.llangibby.eclipse.co.uk/Technical%20details/rollo_m20...
  • jamica1 said:
    Clever title
  • Pascal FAGNIEZ said:
    Brilliantly captured Photo
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    Thank you for giving awards that provide feedback for your fellow Flickr photographers.

Portrait: Pankhurst, Emmeline

from LSE Library

Portrait: Seymour, Isabel

from LSE Library

Cork - through a glass darkly

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 31 older comments, and then…
  • wuffee_cem said:
    Suck Diesel Still a beauty!

NMRTC San Diego celebrates 250 years of Navy warfighting heritage and tradition 251007-N-KM181-1002

from Navy Medicine

  • k said:
    !!!!!!!!!!!

Harry Fell, hairdresser, Melbourne, 28 October 1952

from State Library of New South Wales

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • Pig Pang said:
    Servus from Vienna! State Library of NSW, Harry Fell, hairdresser, Melbourne, 8 October 1952 is an incredible capture!your phto is truly impressive!

Portrait: Martindale, Hilda

from LSE Library

Portrait: Noakes, Daisy

from LSE Library

Portrait: O'Malley, Ida

from LSE Library

Portrait: Pankhurst, Sylvia

from LSE Library

  • Roger said:
    who is Ms Potlesman .... google has no quick answers

NO CAPTION (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • jessamyn west said:
    Great catch!

Let's stay at Lacy's of Bray

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the NIAH: Detached multiple-bay three-storey Gothic Style hotel, built 1900.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A Witches' Hat ? Google is telling me they should be conical; this looks hexagonal.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Not far to the right from this other O'Connor photo -

    Mr O'Connor seems to have photographed every hotel in Bray!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 25" suggests this block was 2 hotels originally.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 1911 census has Mary Josephine Lacy, Hotel Keeper, 45.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Niall McAuley Here is the other half of the 'blick' - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000299533
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Still standing, just up from the Strand Hotel, which was the former residence of Oscar Wilde.

    maps.app.goo.gl/3gBo6NGx7S1e4CBv7?g_st=ac

    Edit: In 2009 it was the Best Western Esplanade Hotel, which now seems to be closed. It would appear to be an IPAS accommodation now.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Mike Grimes maps.app.goo.gl/GTDHgommcdXe3BAe7
  • John Spooner said:
    Dublin Evening Telegraph - Saturday 21 October 1893
    Dublin Evening Telegraph - Saturday 21 October 1893

    John F Lacy not only owned and ran two hotels, but was also a member of the Rathdown Board of guardians and the Bray Township Board. He died in February 1901.

Earl of Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Circular Quay Looking South-East

from Powerhouse Museum

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • covid convict said:
    11th August, 1908

Circular Quay with Sydney skyline, 1920 - 1929

from Powerhouse Museum

  • 2 older comments, and then…
  • covid convict said:
    11th August, 1908

Page 03, image 3

from Community Archives of Belleville & Hastings County

  • covid convict said:
    It's great to have a photo of this scene which comes with a definite date!

    Here are some others...with approximate dates

    ca. 1903-04

    ca. 1930