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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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Competition could hardly get any closer!

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Three hundred and sixteen years between them

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    From
    ‘THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND,
    FOR THE YEAR 1890.’

    “ These two cases are sufficiently strong proof; but if we add Mrs. Branney, who recollects the battle of Ballynahinch, with her son, grandson, and great-grandson; Mrs. Hamilton, and three succeeding generations; Mrs. Mac Donnell, and three generations of offspring; Ned Rogers, who received a pension from Geo. If., Geo. IV., Wm. IV., and all through the reign of Victoria-all of whom are now living and can be interviewed by anyone who is sceptical of their age—I think we may safely conclude that Irish people with sound bodies and abstemious habits
    live in many instances 100 years and upwards. With a cessation of emigration and favourable conditions of life, a race presenting such evidences of vitality would soon again number a
    population equal to that of fifty years ago.”

    babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b757613&seq=35
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Was Mrs Branney a granny ?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Thank you. From page 239, but I'd recommend a good scroll through the Journal anyway. Great range of topics.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Had worked as a nanny?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Was Kate McGrath a Great Grandma ?

Oh Flower of Scotland

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wikipedia has a very similar photo in Westminster Abbey dated "c. 1875 - c. 1885". There's no label on the sword and shield ...
    Spot the Differences!

    The Stone of Scone has had more than its share of ups and downs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
    "Since March 2024, it has been on permanent public display in Perth"
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Leonard Bentley who says the Magic Lantern slide is late 1880s -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    We had its Irish equivalent, an Lia Fáil, here before, also by Mason below.

    I see the Scottish rock is also called An Lia Fàil in Scots Gaelic!
    The harp that once through Tara's Halls...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Because that comment came from you, for one milli-zillisecond I thought, what's it doing in Western Australia?! :D
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Ha ha! I am moithered that the Stone of Scone doesn't rhyme !

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