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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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The young Doctor Stephenson, I presume?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    8 September 1908 was a Tuesday ...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Only one hit for Stephenson, Doctor in the 1911 census, and he's only 22!

    Poor transcription, I think it says Medical Doctor, Not Practicing, M.D. National University

    His father, Matthew, Late Land Owner, Justice of Peace Kilkenny.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Indeed. Not prostising would be unusual. :)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At young John's birth in 1888, Matthew was a Gentleman Farmer in Dualla near Cashel.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    A bit more Poole-adjacent, in 1901 the family live in 17 Church Road, Tramore.

    The 25" shows a house named Clareville on Priest's Road in Tramore.

    House is still standing, now named Inchera Streetview

Take yer pick of the Lamb or Bullock?

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Top left says Old Mill on Poddle River, Dolphin's Barn, 1893.

    Which confused me, as I didn't think the Poddle flowed through Dolphin's Barn.

    But looking at the 6" and 25", I see Rutland Mills, with a mill race coming from the Poddle.

    The mill would have been at the junction of Rutland Avenue and Clogher Road.

    In Google's aerial view linked below, you can still see where the mill race left the Poddle beside (now) Mount Argos Square
  • Suck Diesel said:
    maps.app.goo.gl/TSmqP2cmPxpkpP4H8
    Bottom right

    Perhaps top right refers to Emmet’s hideaway, not Lord Edward?
    If so, that house is long gone
  • Niall McAuley said:
    On the 6", the stone which splits the Poddle is marked as Tongue and the small townland Tonguefield.

    But in Google maps, it is marked as Stone Boat, which is where the Kimmage pub gets its name.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    " ... Arrest and death
    Lord Edward's hiding place with the feather merchant Nicholas Murphy was betrayed to the spymaster Francis Higgins (qv) by the secretive catholic barrister Francis Magan (qv), who received the £1,000 reward. At seven in the evening on 19 May, an arrest party led by Major Sirr (qv) burst into his upstairs room at 151 Thomas Street in the heart of the Liberties. FitzGerald fiercely resisted arrest, killed one man with his dagger, but sustained serious injuries himself when Sirr shot him in the shoulder at point-blank range. He was taken to Dublin Castle and then jailed in Newgate. ..."
    From - www.dib.ie/biography/fitzgerald-lord-edward-a3138

    See also - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Edward_FitzGerald#Arrest_and_d...

    Hmmm ...
  • Architecture of Dublin said:
    "House at Harold's Cross Bridge, Dublin where it ____ Lord Ed Fitzgerald was concealed"

    A pair of twin Dutch Billy's near Harold's Cross bridge with a cruciform roof plan, long since demolished, I wonder how long they lasted. I don't recall ever seeing them or that particular photo before. Likely on the Northern side of the bridge anyway.

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 ?

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