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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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Well-dressed couple

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  • 18 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Perhaps a few more clues here - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000591323
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Next-door-in-the-catalogue is August 1901 (and the carpet was good!) - POOLEWP 1184a
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000591321
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I only see one P. Pallin in the census, married 5 years in 1911.

    His wife was Nora Kidd, not Bell.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Positive on the Carpet!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Not much help there, I suppose he could be from overseas, with Miss Bell living in Tramore?

Down and Out in Longford

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    12 March 1974 was a Tuesday ... not a Good News Day for A36R
  • beachcomber australia said:
    It happened on 27 February, a while before. Details here - irishrailwaymodeller.com/topic/2432-longford-derailment/

    "... Fortunately there were no major injuries largely due to there being no passengers in the two carriages that went down the embankment. Only the driver was removed to hospital, for precautionary reasons. One passenger received medical attention at Longford station but was fit enough to continue their journey to Dublin. ... "
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "josefstadt" on the above site has a few colour photos of the recovery operation. Can anyone spot Mr O'Dea in his photos?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Date pre 4/6 May, according to
    “A36R, which had come to rest in a very awkward position, was not recovered until the weekend of 4 / 5 May, by which time a large amount of the locomotive’s brass and copper had been removed by persons from a local ‘caravan park’!
  • Foxglove said:
    .... resting...not sleeping

Training Day

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  • 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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