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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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The Piebald Tower House in Carrigaholt

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Great craic at the Bottle Tower?

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Whiskey has an E in it, no matter what the Scots might say

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Evidently the distillery closed in 1929, according to Wikipedia -
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandon_Distillery
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Whiskeyview - maps.app.goo.gl/vBeq6dNtAr8VbmBC7
  • John Spooner said:
    I can't find any rules about attacking the foreman maltster with a shovel. Southern Star (Skibbereen) - Saturday 24 February 1917
    Southern Star (Skibbereen) - Saturday 24 February 1917

    BTW Welsh whisky doesn't have an E, whether it's in English like the bottle on my shelf, or in Welsh - wisgi
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Via Trove in 1888, from an article about "Irish Wit" -

    ... In Bandon the distillery of Messrs. Allman and Co. is known by the name "Al-co-Hall" ...

    See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/169705916?searchTerm=B...
  • Mike Grimes said:
    John Spooner The current P.J. O'Driscoll lives up the road from my parents house. Obviously a name they kept in the family. Every now and again his peacocks would visit our garden and he'd have to come collect them. We still have some tail feathers in a vase in the hall.

    www.pjodriscoll.ie/history-of-pj-o-driscoll_s

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