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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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In the earth and in the heavens

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Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear?

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  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    7 March 1968 was a Thursday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Easiest to see and follow the line of the disused railway using Google Satellite 3D - maps.app.goo.gl/JghBqiu9ZiX1iLGM9
  • Suck Diesel said:
    The Silvermines line was a short branch of 1¼ miles, off the Ballybrophy – Killonan line, at Silvermines Jct, between Nenagh and Birdhill. It opened in 1966 to serve a barytes mine. The mine and branch closed in 1993.

    thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/ForgottenRailways/Silvermin...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    youtu.be/L63o4poXAWQ?si=st_ed-tsPK0Kg4rm
  • Suck Diesel said:

    via Fred Dean

    Silvermines Junction (MP 35-1/4), the start of the short spur to the mines

The Bonaventure gang

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  • 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?

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