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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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Saint Teresa of the Roses?

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Unidentified = Eel Weir taken from Town Bridge in Athlone, Co. Westmeath

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  • 34 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Looks very familiar! (will think about the date).
  • DannyM8 said:
    Shannon I would think
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlebee2012] Keep thinking - all suggestions welcome, though from the width I'm thinking the Shannon just like DannyM8.
  • Colin said:
    I was just going to say it is the Shannon, because those barges with the tall chimneys are Shannon barges, methinks. Could it be Foynes before development? Or is it one of the junctions between the Shannon and one of the canals?
  • In Memoriam said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlebee2012] Maybe you are thinking of Westport Quay? I am not sure that it quite right for it but it is very similar.

Reflected glory of reflected shame

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    "Sticky Backs" rings a bell ...
    www.stickybacks.uk/definition.asp

    And in Dublin -
    www.stickybacks.uk/lloyd.asp
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The second link above suggests Sticky Backs were at 30 Grafton Street from 1906, therefore an earliest date for the photo. The (ghastly) hats look more 1906 than 1916.

    Edit - Later on the article suggests "Mr Henry L Lloyd (1910-1919)"
    So earliest 1910 ??
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The DIB says (my emphasis):
    Casement, Sir Roger David (1864–1916), humanitarian and Irish nationalist, was born 1 September 1864 in Sandycove, near Dublin, youngest child among one daughter and three sons of Roger Casement, retired army officer, and Anne Casement (née Jephson).
  • Niall McAuley said:
    In the archive, I see Letters from Roger Casement to his sister Agnes Newman and his cousin Gertrude Bannister, and also essays by Roger Casement Senior, and three letters by him including one on the Siege of Paris, 1850-1916.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    From more nli letters, his brothers are Tom and Charlie.

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