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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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Now where are those otters?

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  • 28 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    Prost, Neujahr!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    derangedlemur Athbhliain Faoi Mhaise!
  • derangedlemur said:
    maps.google.ie/maps?q=curraghmore,+Waterford&hl=en&am...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    derangedlemur Thank you kindly.
  • derangedlemur said:
    Only joking. The whole estate was walled and wooded like that back then. It could be anywhere.

Farrell's Barricade

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  • Carol Maddock said:
    Love when this happens! We have a copy of that EASTER WEEK REPEATS ITSELF poster here at Library Towers, so deffo 1922... :)
  • domenico milella said:
    Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    There's a Peter Farrell, job coach and undertaker establishment at 66 Marlborough Street (also 49-52 Corporation Street) in Thom's Directory, 1922.
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Could this photo be taken from Upper Gloucester Street (now Sean McDermott Street) with Marlborough Street extending southwards behind the barricade and St Thomas's Church out of sight behind the railings and the disused graveyard out of sight behind the curving wall?
    maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,715905,734970,12,9
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The gate at left of this archive drawing of the front of St. Thomas's looks exactly like the gate pictured here.

The young Doctor Stephenson, I presume?

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    8 September 1908 was a Tuesday ...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Only one hit for Stephenson, Doctor in the 1911 census, and he's only 22!

    Poor transcription, I think it says Medical Doctor, Not Practicing, M.D. National University

    His father, Matthew, Late Land Owner, Justice of Peace Kilkenny.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Indeed. Not prostising would be unusual. :)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    At young John's birth in 1888, Matthew was a Gentleman Farmer in Dualla near Cashel.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    A bit more Poole-adjacent, in 1901 the family live in 17 Church Road, Tramore.

    The 25" shows a house named Clareville on Priest's Road in Tramore.

    House is still standing, now named Inchera Streetview

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