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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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A mourning band at Magherintemple

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  • 14 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Seat of the Casement family (as in Roger Casement), per Lord Belmont
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Still there, location on Google maps
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The Casements at home in 1901.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The block at right is from 1875, we are a few years at least after that.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    If that's John Casement who had that block built, it's latest 1902 when he died.

Nice suit, Squire

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Defined in 1894 by James Parker Esquire, (Latin: armiger, French: escuyer): a title of a gentleman of the rank immediately below a knight. It was originally a military office, an esquire being (as the name escuyer, from escu, a shield, implies) a knight's attendant and shield bearer
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  • John Spooner said:
    May or may not be the same J Pemberton.
    Evening Herald (Dublin) - Tuesday 26 March 1907:
    CITY BURGLARY.
    £2O in Gold Gone.
    Last night or early this morning a burglary was committed at the works of Messrs. J. Pemberton and Sons, 23 Charlemont street. The office was broken into, the desk forced open, and £20 in gold and notes taken. and a considerable amount of damage was done.
  • John Spooner said:
    A small ad in the Irish Independent - Wednesday 26 July 1893, indicates that anyone interested in either of 2 houses for sale should contact "J Pemberton & Son, builders, Charlemont St"
  • Suck Diesel said:
    John Spooner Here’s a J. Pemberton, builder,

    www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Dublin/Rathmine...

    Too young, perhaps the ‘son’
  • John Spooner said:
    At the funeral of Benjamin B. Pemberton, builder, in August 1906, the chief mourners were listed as:
    John T. Pemberton and W. H. Pemberton (sons)
    Wm Pemberton and Joseph Pemberton (brothers)
    Joseph W. Pemberton, Victor P. Pemberton, Robert T. Pemberton, Christopher W. Pemberton , Frederick Pemberton , James W. Pemberton (nephews)
    (Evening Irish Times - Saturday 18 August 1906)

    So is it Joseph Pemberton Esquire, I wonder?

George's Hill Presentation Convent, Dublin City, Co. Dublin

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  • B-59 said:
    View from the other direction: goo.gl/maps/Td6McdFp1g12
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    An article from 1894 celebrating the convents 100th anniversary.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    OSI Map
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The GoogleSatelliteView shows that They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot ... (thanks Joni)
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Based on the description here, I think it's from after 1906. All 4 gables of the school are present, the second pair being built in 1906..

    See also the DIA article.

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