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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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Farrell's Barricade

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  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • 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.

Cúchulainn loved the Mód Direach!

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  • Mike Grimes said:
    Established in 1859, Dundalgan Press is one the oldest printing works in Ireland. The firm was started by William Tempest, and expanded under his son Henry (1881–1964).

    [From Facebook and Oxford Reference]
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Meet the founder.

    www.dib.ie/biography/tempest-william-a8491
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Here's Mr Tempest's shop (posted 15 years ago!).

  • Niall McAuley said:
    Tempest's Annual for 1905
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Can anyone find the charts online ?
    Please !

Three hundred and sixteen years between them

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    From
    ‘THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF IRELAND,
    FOR THE YEAR 1890.’

    “ These two cases are sufficiently strong proof; but if we add Mrs. Branney, who recollects the battle of Ballynahinch, with her son, grandson, and great-grandson; Mrs. Hamilton, and three succeeding generations; Mrs. Mac Donnell, and three generations of offspring; Ned Rogers, who received a pension from Geo. If., Geo. IV., Wm. IV., and all through the reign of Victoria-all of whom are now living and can be interviewed by anyone who is sceptical of their age—I think we may safely conclude that Irish people with sound bodies and abstemious habits
    live in many instances 100 years and upwards. With a cessation of emigration and favourable conditions of life, a race presenting such evidences of vitality would soon again number a
    population equal to that of fifty years ago.”

    babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b757613&seq=35
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Was Mrs Branney a granny ?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Thank you. From page 239, but I'd recommend a good scroll through the Journal anyway. Great range of topics.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Had worked as a nanny?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Was Kate McGrath a Great Grandma ?

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