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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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The Bonaventure gang

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  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    25 July 1948 was a Sunday ...

    Don't look at the carpet !
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A couple more, and an address ...
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595244
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595245

    "Sister Bonaventure, c/o Mrs. Kavanagh, 14, Barrack Street"
  • seikinsou said:
    Beautifully staged. It must have taken quite a while (probably days) to make this photograph happen.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia What Carpet?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    seikinsou I would have thought that Poole would not have given more than 1 hour to get the whole process completed?

Cúchulainn loved the Mód Direach!

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  • Mike Grimes said:
    Established in 1859, Dundalgan Press is one the oldest printing works in Ireland. The firm was started by William Tempest, and expanded under his son Henry (1881–1964).

    [From Facebook and Oxford Reference]
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Meet the founder.

    www.dib.ie/biography/tempest-william-a8491
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Here's Mr Tempest's shop (posted 15 years ago!).

  • Niall McAuley said:
    Tempest's Annual for 1905
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Can anyone find the charts online ?
    Please !

Training Day

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  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Sorry for the delay in posting today, we were on a training course.
  • Foxglove said:
    tools for easy access....
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Foxglove Makes sense now that I read the notes on Page 10 of the album.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Image 30 -
    24 July 1903 was a Friday . . .

    Not the Neville Chamberlain
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain_(police_officer)

    "Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain KCB KCVO KStJ KPM (13 January 1856 – 28 May 1944) was an officer in the British Indian Army. He was later Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and resigned in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. He is credited with having invented the game of snooker while serving in Jubbulpore (Jabalpur), India, in 1875. ..."

  • Niall McAuley said:
    I am not seeing recent pics in my feed...

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