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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 Ladies and the Tramp (steamer)

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Let's stay at Lacy's of Bray

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Per the NIAH: Detached multiple-bay three-storey Gothic Style hotel, built 1900.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    A Witches' Hat ? Google is telling me they should be conical; this looks hexagonal.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Not far to the right from this other O'Connor photo -

    Mr O'Connor seems to have photographed every hotel in Bray!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 25" suggests this block was 2 hotels originally.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The 1911 census has Mary Josephine Lacy, Hotel Keeper, 45.

International Hotel, Bray, Co. Wicklow

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  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Streetview
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    OSI Map

    The International Hotel is one of the buildings at the far end of the street. The one sticking out slightly. There are other photos in the NLI where it has a more starring role e.g. here.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Here's a history of the International Hotel including a bit about the Quinnsborough Rd. area.

    The 1974 fire:

  • Carol Maddock said:
    Sharon Corbet Doesn't cut too much off the date, but your link to Our Wicklow Heritage page says the hotel opened in 1862, so 1862-1883.

    So from your OSI link, we're looking at the Presbyterian Church, Goldsmith Terrace, Prince of Wales Terrace, then the International Hotel.

    From ads in the Freeman’s Journal, no. 6 Goldsmith Terrace, Quinsborough Road was a hairdressers from 15 December 1863 (11 Dec. 1863), and no. 7, Quinsborough Road (also Goldsmith Terrace?) was an Auctioneers/House and Land Agent - James Redington. (17 May 1864).

    The hairdressers ad is gorgeous and reeks of the time (or is scented by the time):
    Opening of the Bray Haircutting Rooms
    Mrs. Birch, 1, Molesworth-Street, begs respectfully to announce to the Nobility and Gentry of Bray and its vicinity that she purposes opening the House No. 6, Goldsmith Terrace, Quinsborough Road, Bray, on Tuesday December 15, as a Haircutting and Perfumery Establishment, to be conducted on precisely the same principles as have secured to her house in Molesworth-street such distinguished patronage for upwards of half a century.
    The Stock will comprise every Toilet requisite of merit from the most eminent houses in Paris and London, together with an assortment of Fancy Goods.
    The Haircutting Rooms will be attended by Assistants of ability and experience.
    For the convenience of Ladies, Mrs. Birch purposes keeping a stock of Ornamental Hair. In this department orders can be executed with dispatch from the parent establishment in town [for emergency bad hair days presumably!].
    In thus supplying a want long felt in Bray, Mrs. Birch hopes to receive encouragement and support, pledging herself to use every effort to merit it.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The Presbyterian Church looks very new (built 1858?), or at least the plants in the yard are recent.

    Always fascinated by photos of Bray, as my relly, Jonathan Henn, lived and died there in 1873. He would have recognized the place as in this photo. It might even be him walking along the street ...

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