National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 4,153 photos
  • 122M views
  • Member since 2011
  • Last upload was
    5 hours ago
  • 🇮🇪
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...

When were these photos taken?

211
1749
2091

 

Where were these photos taken?

76% of these photos are geotagged.

These links will take you to Flickr.com. For now.

Photos of interest

These photos have had lots of views, comments, and favourites.

Recent uploads

The last upload was 5 hours ago.

Conversations

Here’s a selection of the conversations happening on these photos::

Training Day

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • 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...

Competition could hardly get any closer!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Oh Flower of Scotland

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wikipedia has a very similar photo in Westminster Abbey dated "c. 1875 - c. 1885". There's no label on the sword and shield ...
    Spot the Differences!

    The Stone of Scone has had more than its share of ups and downs - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_of_Scone
    "Since March 2024, it has been on permanent public display in Perth"
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Leonard Bentley who says the Magic Lantern slide is late 1880s -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    We had its Irish equivalent, an Lia Fáil, here before, also by Mason below.

    I see the Scottish rock is also called An Lia Fàil in Scots Gaelic!
    The harp that once through Tara's Halls...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Because that comment came from you, for one milli-zillisecond I thought, what's it doing in Western Australia?! :D
  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Ha ha! I am moithered that the Stone of Scone doesn't rhyme !

No comments. Yet.

Do you know anything about what’s in these photos?