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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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New Ross is where I'd rather stay

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  • 48 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Zimber Bros, watchmakers
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “The Zimber Bros business in New Ross was still in existence up to 1938”

    holmesfamilyireland.blogspot.com/2009/03/from-schwarzwald...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Next-door-in-the-catalogue POOLEWP 0420 is dated August 1903
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000590329
    S.S. 'Sheerness' with fake bow waves.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    What looks like another chocolate advert in the left shop window, says,

    CHERRY'S
    ALES &
    PALE BUTT

    Someone will get to the bottom of that ...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel 1938 is an interesting year, I wonder if there is a bigger story to it?

Train at Abbeyleix

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Yeh boy's we're the Men of the West!

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Scarily easy using Google Lens -

    "Saturday, January 22, 1916
    Officers training camp began at Volunteers Hall, Sheares St, Cork, instructed by JJ O'Connell.
    The course was to cover field work, elementary drill, physical drill, and lectures, according to the notice placed in the Irish Volunteer newspaper.
    Most of the companies in the county mainly formed in the previous six months thanks to organisers like Terence MacSwiney, Sean Nolan and Daithi Barry were represented."

    From - www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20375606.html
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Text on the back of the photo reads:

    MEN OF THE WEST (SHEARES ST. CORK - 1915)

    INCLUDED IN THIS GROUP :-
    1. Seán Sullivan (R.I.P)
    2. C Ó Gormáin (Bailitheóir Cánach)
    3. Seán Hales (Shot Dead - Dublin)
    4. T. Hales (New F.F. T.D.)
    5. Tadg Barry (Shot Dead - Ballykindlar Camp)
    6. Comdt. O'Connell (Army)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    All the names here - freepages.rootsweb.com/~bwickham/genealogy/uniforms.htm

    "Officers Training Camp at Volunteers Hall, Sheares Street, Cork commenced Jan 22, 1916.

    Front Row seated: Cornelius J. Meany, Cornelius Mahoney, Patrick J. Twomey, Martin O'Keefe, Michael Leahy, William Kelliher, James Murphy, Chris McSweeney.

    Second Row: Sean O'Sullivan, Christopher O'Gorman, Michael Lynch, Sean Lynch, John Manning, Charles Wall, James Walsh, Sean Carroll, Riobard Langford, Maurice Ahern, Tom Hales, Tadgh Barry, Captain J. J. "Ginger" O'Connell.

    Back Row: Paud O'Donoghue, Cornelius Ahern, Sean O'Driscoll, Eugene Walsh, Denis O'Brien, Sean Collins, Seamus Courtney, Jeremiah Mullane, Michael Hyde, Liam O'Brien, Michael McCarthy.
    (Click here for Larger 160k photo)

    (Identifications from "Rebel Cork's Fighting Story") "
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Is this the place? I'm not 100% sure - maps.app.goo.gl/8h9KvhECqNi7JZXS6
  • beachcomber australia said:
    More convinced it is the right streetview, "St Francis Hall, 20 Sheares Street" - www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-rocks-for-rory/rory-gallagher-sto... (relevant history)

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