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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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Elmhurst for the holidays but only in the summer

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  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    Quite a beautiful photo of a beautiful house.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Google maps gives an Elmhurst Road, but it is not very near Bournemouth and this house is not on it.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    UCD have a collection of correspondence of a Dr. William Frazer, who was a hobbyist in historical and archaeological stuff.

    www.ucd.ie/archives/t4media/la0041-frazer-william-descrip...

    Maybe not, he seems to have died in 1899: www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/deaths_returns/deaths_1...
  • John Spooner said:
    The Bournemouth Daily Echo of- Saturday 4 October 1902 carried an legal notice of an application to license a building for stage plays. William Frazer M.D. of Elmhurst, Bournemouth, is named.
    Bournemouth Daily Echo - Saturday 04 October 1902
  • John Spooner said:
    Dr Frazer of Elmurst had one daughter , Elsie Mary, who married Mr Edgar Grotrian of Wetherby, Yorkshire on on April 27th 1905. (Gentlewoman - Saturday 20 May 1905)

Executions are no joke!

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Fake news
  • Foxglove said:
    there is a glitch with Flickr today - feeds are hosting "recommended photos" rather than "favoured users"
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Foxglove Yes, spotted weirdinesses alright.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I see a crop of this pic online with the rightmost two prisoners captioned John Charles Keegan (right) with Eamon De Valera from a photo taken in Arbour Hill prison 1924
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Somewhere reputable? The Long Fellow, certainly. Interested to hear more about John Charles Keegan...

All ready to dance the Charleston

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    There is a non-digitized shot called Wedding cake commissioned by Mr. Alec Tringey, Moran's Hotel
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Hmm, no Tringeys in the 1901 or 1911 census, nor in the irishgeneology records. Possible transcription error? Or perhaps a non-Irish gentleman?

    Ah, Tingey.

    Marriage record of Alexander Tingey, Printer or maybe Painter? of Moorfields, London to Josephine Collins of Lr. Grange, witnesses Nellie Collins and Henry Colclough.


    Oct 20th 1928.
  • Samuel Collazo said:
    Excellent!!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Wow. Niall, you make this look so easy!
  • Suck Diesel said:
    civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/details-civi...

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