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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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Cork - through a glass darkly

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  • 27 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There seems to be no convenient streetview / riverview, so here is Google Maps 3D. I think Mr O'Connor was near that footbridge ...
    www.google.com/maps/@51.8960997,-8.473747,33a,35y,243.38h...
  • crack jackson jr said:
    Gorgeous!
  • Mike Grimes said:
    The view from the bridge in the photo. I wonder what the footbridge looked like back then.

    maps.app.goo.gl/5r1tEUWQMpzd5LD26?g_st=ac
  • Niall McAuley said:
    That row of shops with named proprietors may help date it, on Sullivan's Quay. No D. Foley or Foley Bootmaker in the 1921 Guy's. No John Shea either, either. Nor in 1935.

    Ah, they are all in the 1897.

    Dominick Foley, Bootmaker
    Michael McCarthy, Shopkr
    John Shea, Shopkeeper
    J Anderson, Shopkeeper

    By 1903, Shea is gone and #28 is Edward Phillon

    So right at the start of the date range.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Back in 1891, McCarthy, Shea and Anderson are all here, but Foley's is Jordan J, Hairdresser

    Jordan is still there in 1893.

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.

Tall hats and tall columns at Bellamont Forest

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    I wonder if this is them ?

    " ... In 1875 the house was acquired by Edward Smith for a sum of £145,000. Smith had made a fortune from trading coal on the Newry to Liverpool route and married an Isabella Cullen of Liverpool. He later became High Sheriff of Cavan in 1878.
    Later his son Major Edward Patrick Dorman Smith became High Sheriff of Cavan in 1897 and 1898 after marrying Amy Patterson in 1894. ... ..."

    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellamont_House

    Popcorn time - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nFuJFo7sAE
  • beachcomber australia said:
    No! They are Cootes ! Image 2 has a 13 September 1870 date.
    (13 September 1870 was a Tuesday)
  • Mike Grimes said:
    beachcomber australia I wonder about the gentleman seated to the left of the door wearing the pale hat. Is it the same hat as the one that is hanging on the hatstand in the Wikipedia photo of the billiard room taken c1870?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Mike Grimes Likely! The billiard room is Image 10 in the album.

    Lord Belmont has the family sorted, but a bit vague around 1870 -
    lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2013/08/bellamo...

    Including the fabulous 1st Earl of Bellamont KB -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Google maps link

    NIAH link

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