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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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Post early for Christmas from Tullamore;-)

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Bienvenue chez nous

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  • O Mac said:
    The upstairs window has been rearranged since.
    maps.app.goo.gl/Nn1Xy6Dpc9KvguNC6?g_st=ac
  • Noel Treacy said:
    Sigh - it's spelt 'Treacy' in the photo ( the number of times I have to correct the spelling in England then to see it on an Irish site ...)
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    The "Tracey's" but, the name is T. TREACY Tobaccanist / News Agent. Maybe they misspelled it.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    19 June 1922 was a Monday ...

    Similar Trompe-l'œil wall decoration seen in 1915 here -
  • John Spooner said:
    Waterford Evening Star - Tuesday 10 April: 1917
    READERS Please Note—The "Evening Star”" can always be had from Mr. Treacy, newsagent, 7 Barrack Street, also the weekly issue every Friday. Owing to the great demand for the "Star’ we advise our patrons to place an order with their newsagents to ensure their getting a copy every evening.

Ladies doing lunch?

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942) was an American playwright, poet, and suffragist. She is best known for her feminist anti-war play, War Brides, which was made into a silent film starring Alla Nazimova in 1916.
    Wikipedia
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Kathleen O'Brennan (20 November 1876 – 1948) was an Irish campaigner for Irish independence in the US, a journalist and a playwright
    Wikipedia
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Mary Elliott Flanery (April 27, 1867 – July 19, 1933) was an American Progressive Era social reformer, suffragist, politician, and journalist who is best remembered as the first woman elected to the Kentucky General Assembly and first woman elected to a state legislature south of the Mason–Dixon line.[1] Flanery was an advocate for equal rights for women, and actively worked to pass legislation that would give women the right to vote.
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  • Niall McAuley said:
    On an earlier KOB pic, we learned she was in the US from 1914-1919.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    At a Bungalow belonging to Marie Elliot somewhere in the hills of Southern California, according to the scrawl on the reverse.

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