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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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Termonfeckin, where women rule the roost!

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  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • Wendy: said:
    fabulous green house and kitchen garden!!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Archiseek has a brief history, but won't let me copy'n'paste ...
    www.archiseek.com/1870-an-grianan-newtown-house-termonfec...

    GoogleMapsSatellite (not 3D) - maps.app.goo.gl/UaXEeBsnakqYsuJk6

    Admiring the huge greenhouses which seems to have gone.
  • Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
    beachcomber australia
    Archiseek (via Windows Snipping Tool) -

    "Originally built in the 1780s by the McClintock family and called Newtown House. In 1852 it was sold to a Drogheda merchant and shipbuilder called Ralph Smyth who extended it around 1870. It was redesigned with two elevations of similar architectural merit, both with fine dressed limestone porticos giving it an overall Italianate appearance. The house as it survives today is Smith's work, but a portion of the McClintock building survives at the east end of the south front.

    In the early 1920's it was bought by Helen Lentaigne, who allowed the newly constituted Irish Countrywomen's Association to use Newtown House as a venue for one of the first ICA Summer Schools during the 1930's. In July 1945 Mrs Lentaigne sold Newtown House to the Irish Tourist
    Board, who renovated the premises and opened the house as Tearman Hotel.

    The seeds of An Grianan, were sown in 1952, when Muriel Gahan of the ICA proposed the idea for a residential college for social and educational purposes to Dr Morris, of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of America, through a chance introduction. It was purchased and entrusted for the benefit of the people of Ireland. In October 1954 it was officially opened by the then President of Ireland Sean T O'Kelly."
  • Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
    25" OS - Newtown House temp - Screenshot 2026-01-20 112454
  • beachcomber australia said:
    [ Admires Dún Laoghaire Micheál's Snipping Tool ! ]

In Glendalough the stone lies still.

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What did the Normans ever do for us?

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