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Here at the National Library of Ireland we look after the largest collection of Irish printed, manuscript, and visual material in the world, and our collections span almost 1,000 years of Irish art, culture, history and literature. We first started on flickr in February 2010 with a range of items from our Ephemera Collections. These printed items - originally produced to be almost as quickly thrown away - are invaluable as a means of gaining snapshots of different periods in Ireland's social, political, economic and cultural history. Though transient items, they're sometimes very beautiful to look at, occasionally fascinating, and often unintentionally funny...

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Jamestown

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  • 45 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Not much of original house left

    www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/30814...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Cloomcorrick - what's that ?!

    The photo is very clear for 1858.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    ANother 'Cloomcorrick' - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000224208
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia You can't be asking me hard questions this early in the day! I ask the questions around here. Where did you find the first Cloomcorrick?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia The photo is very clear for 1858, I had the same thought! E.K.T. must have been a very early adopter!

Poles from Poleland

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  • John Spooner said:
    Rack & Ruin You beat me to it.

    Catholic Standard - Friday 31 January 1958:
    Actually the newsprint used in THE STANDARD is from Clondalkin Mills and Irish timber. It is just as satisfactory raw material thanks to the technicians who produce it anything coming from Canada or the Scandinavian countries.
  • Marcel & Rrose in Infrathin said:
    I just realised from the tags that it's not Clondalkin Paper Mills, but I would guess that the poles were there as fodder for the mill.
  • Marcel & Rrose in Infrathin said:
    I worked there around 1971/72, so my memory of it would be very fuzzy. Further perusal of the tags suggests they are poles that would have been used by the electricity board as electricity cable carrying poles on the streets. Duh!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Rack & Ruin John Spooner I think that you are both right and that the caption is incorrect. My experience of both ESB and P&T pole fields was that they were of varying length and a lot more higgledy piggledy tha those neat piles! The poles had also bee soaked in preservative and were smelly!
  • Marcel & Rrose in Infrathin said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons I have been trying to work out the geography, and cannot see the Round Tower close by (unless it's behind the trees), and what I thought was Orchard Road (where I lived), might not be it.

They shall not pass!

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    15 June 1952 was a Sunday ...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Thank you.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Well, Liam Neeson was born a week earlier
  • Foxglove said:
    2nd weekend June: Williams Landing in Carrickfergus
    3rd June weekend "the mini 12th" for July
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Foxglove Aha, the date makes sense then, thank you.

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