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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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Lets go to Slane, sure nothing ever happens there!

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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 ...

A marriage of the Eras in County Galway

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Still 'hitched' in 2014, via MikeofDorset

    Edit - photo used in the Wiki article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballymore_Castle
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The NIAH says Detached three-bay two-storey country house, built c.1810, facing north, having bowed entrance bay, two-bay side elevations, slightly recessed single-bay single-storey addition to east end, and multiple-bay two- and three-storey additions to rear elevation, built onto front of four-storey tower house of c.1585, and makes a passing reference to the "Seymour mausoleum" nearby.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    On the record for the Mausoleum, it says The family mausoleum of the Seymours, who acquired Ballymore Castle and its lands around 1700 and remained there until the early twentieth century, so the Seymours probably owned the castle at the time of this pic.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There seems to be several Ballymore Castles. I don't think this is today's Galway one -
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000622471 (1823)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Census for 1901 shows a house belonging to a WG Seymour in the townland, but it is vacant.

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