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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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Great craic at the Bottle Tower?

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Training Day

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  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Sorry for the delay in posting today, we were on a training course.
  • Foxglove said:
    tools for easy access....
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Foxglove Makes sense now that I read the notes on Page 10 of the album.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Image 30 -
    24 July 1903 was a Friday . . .

    Not the Neville Chamberlain
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Chamberlain_(police_officer)

    "Sir Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain KCB KCVO KStJ KPM (13 January 1856 – 28 May 1944) was an officer in the British Indian Army. He was later Inspector-General of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and resigned in the aftermath of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland. He is credited with having invented the game of snooker while serving in Jubbulpore (Jabalpur), India, in 1875. ..."

  • Niall McAuley said:
    I am not seeing recent pics in my feed...

Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    7 March 1968 was a Thursday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Easiest to see and follow the line of the disused railway using Google Satellite 3D - maps.app.goo.gl/JghBqiu9ZiX1iLGM9
  • Suck Diesel said:
    The Silvermines line was a short branch of 1¼ miles, off the Ballybrophy – Killonan line, at Silvermines Jct, between Nenagh and Birdhill. It opened in 1966 to serve a barytes mine. The mine and branch closed in 1993.

    thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/ForgottenRailways/Silvermin...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    youtu.be/L63o4poXAWQ?si=st_ed-tsPK0Kg4rm
  • Suck Diesel said:

    via Fred Dean

    Silvermines Junction (MP 35-1/4), the start of the short spur to the mines

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