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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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Three hundred and sixteen years between them

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  • 18 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    From
    ‘THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND,
    FOR THE YEAR 1890.’

    “ These two cases are sufficiently strong proof; but if we add Mrs. Branney, who recollects the battle of Ballynahinch, with her son, grandson, and great-grandson; Mrs. Hamilton, and three succeeding generations; Mrs. Mac Donnell, and three generations of offspring; Ned Rogers, who received a pension from Geo. If., Geo. IV., Wm. IV., and all through the reign of Victoria-all of whom are now living and can be interviewed by anyone who is sceptical of their age—I think we may safely conclude that Irish people with sound bodies and abstemious habits
    live in many instances 100 years and upwards. With a cessation of emigration and favourable conditions of life, a race presenting such evidences of vitality would soon again number a
    population equal to that of fifty years ago.”

    babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b757613&seq=35
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Was Mrs Branney a granny ?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Thank you. From page 239, but I'd recommend a good scroll through the Journal anyway. Great range of topics.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Had worked as a nanny?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Was Kate McGrath a Great Grandma ?

Ireland's tallest ladder or longest drainpipe?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Gas AND electric lights - brilliant !
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think this nearby-in-the-catalogue one is the same day (small bare trees in the park etc). Shows the poles for electric trams, and the Robinson & Cleaver store where Mr French / Lawrence was perched on the first floor(?) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338154
    L_CAB_02411
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The other photo shows a shining new statue of Queen Victoria in prime position ...
    ...Created by the sculptor Sir Thomas Brock to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897, it was unveiled by her son, King Edward VII in 1903. Carved from Sicilian marble and standing 11 feet high, this memorial is accompanied on each side by life size bronze figures representing spinning and shipbuilding. The reading child to the rear of the sculpture represents education ...
    From - www.belfastcity.gov.uk/cityhallstatues#:~:text=Created%20....

    So 1903 + ?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Building from 1903

    www.archiseek.com/1903-ocean-accident-gaurantee-corporati...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Google satellite 3D is fun - maps.app.goo.gl/jLF8pQyRFa7CytsX6

Cork - through a glass darkly

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    There seems to be no convenient streetview / riverview, so here is Google Maps 3D. I think Mr O'Connor was near that footbridge ...
    www.google.com/maps/@51.8960997,-8.473747,33a,35y,243.38h...
  • crack jackson jr said:
    Gorgeous!
  • Mike Grimes said:
    The view from the bridge in the photo. I wonder what the footbridge looked like back then.

    maps.app.goo.gl/5r1tEUWQMpzd5LD26?g_st=ac
  • Niall McAuley said:
    That row of shops with named proprietors may help date it, on Sullivan's Quay. No D. Foley or Foley Bootmaker in the 1921 Guy's. No John Shea either, either. Nor in 1935.

    Ah, they are all in the 1897.

    Dominick Foley, Bootmaker
    Michael McCarthy, Shopkr
    John Shea, Shopkeeper
    J Anderson, Shopkeeper

    By 1903, Shea is gone and #28 is Edward Phillon

    So right at the start of the date range.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Back in 1891, McCarthy, Shea and Anderson are all here, but Foley's is Jordan J, Hairdresser

    Jordan is still there in 1893.

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