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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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Am I seeing double once again?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Thinking Innisfallen. There are several other stereo pairs there, but I can't find a match for the boathouse. See the distant hills here - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000564217
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Hmmm ...
    There is a substantial "Boat House" marked on the 25" map, west of Ross Castle, on Ross Island. About here on the GoogleMapsSatellite which shows nothing - maps.app.goo.gl/kiLUkFwL4qNjBjQM7
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Link not working too well.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Thanks, fixed above. Nothing to see except trees and rocks. But if you twiddle round into 3D the shape of the hills is similar and the sun is in the right place when looking sout-west.
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    I wonder is that the now-lost boathouse just downriver from Lord Brandon's cottage?

    Here's a Streetview from the western shore of the Upper Lake, looking west - note the distinctive 'bump' to the left of the cloud-covered mountains - it has a steep step at right and a uniform slope at left, just like the bump to the left of the taller mountains in our boathouse photo.

    maps.app.goo.gl/iWWPW7F6Dh9ros1a8

    Less than 100m NW of the point where Peng Shi took that panoramic image in 2023 is the site of a boathouse which lies 290m SW of Lord Brandon's Cottage - the boathouse is shown on the Ordnance Survey 6" map (1st edition), but it's just marked as a Quay on the last edition. The boathouse seems to be about 18m long on the first edition map, so it could be the one in the photo.

The Ladies and the Tramp (steamer)

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Earl of Longford, Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham

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  • derangedlemur said:
    Did you hear about the Kerry genius? He was a man out standing in his own field.
  • derangedlemur said:
    That's Thomas Packenham's grandad, is it?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    5 September 1928 was a Wednesday ...

    "Edward Arthur Henry Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford (29 December 1902 – 4 February 1961) was an Irish peer, politician, and littérateur. Also known as Eamon de Longphort, he was a member of the fifth Seanad Éireann, the upper house of the Irish Parliament, in the 1940s. ... "
    From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Pakenham,_6th_Earl_of_Longford

    So he is 25 here.
  • derangedlemur said:
    He owned the biggest oak in the country for years. It got struck by lightning since, so it's a bit less big now.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    The 8th Earl, Thomas, is still alive and a most charming man. His book on trees is on the shelves in Easons.

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