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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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Poor auld Salmon, caught in a plaque

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  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • O Mac said:
    Streetclue

    maps.app.goo.gl/kSNz57J3WukiYrjv7?g_st=ac
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "George Salmon FBA FRS FRSE (25 September 1819 – 22 January 1904) was a distinguished and influential Irish mathematician and Anglican theologian. After working in algebraic geometry for two decades, Salmon devoted the last forty years of his life to theology. His entire career was spent at Trinity College Dublin, having served as the 32nd Provost of the university from 1888 to 1904. ..."

    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Salmon

    More - www.dib.ie/biography/salmon-george-a7902#:~:text=In%20184....
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Translation:
    “In memory of men, may he live long. George Salmon.
    Fellow of the College of the Most Holy Trinity, Dublin, for 40 years, then Regius Professor of Sacred Theology, and finally Provost of Dublin.
    A sharp and powerful mathematician, a subtle interpreter of the New Testament, especially the origins of the Irish Church.
    A wise, courteous, serious, and humane teacher and helper, always ready to assist.
    His faithful friends have placed this monument.
    Balliol College, Oxford. Discipline of the House.”
  • Niall McAuley said:
    In the 1901 census aged 81, Provost of TCD
  • beachcomber australia said:
    So definitely after MCMIV .

Give me the History of Ireland on one sheet of paper!

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  • 26 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    We drove the Danes out of Ireland over 1000 years ago and there are still shiploads of them off our west coast! Are they heading to Greenland to repel the US invasion?????
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Question of the day.
    Why is the Honeymoon of Maggie and Jiggs represented on the map?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia There's a good Limerick in there somewhere.
  • Foxglove said:
    and several dogs !.... and a lion pair too
  • DannyM8 said:
    Foxglove I saw them first!

Training Day

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  • 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...

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