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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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Release or Death, that is the option?

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  • 19 older comments, and then…
  • Anne McGinley said:
    www.whytes.ie/art/1920-wormwood-scrubs-hunger-strikers-ph...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Only one Thomas Atkins in Dublin in 1926, a married man, working unloading fishing boats.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Note in Poole Index Book: 'Copy'.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Anne McGinley So May 1920 then? Thank you!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Another print has this ...

    "WORMWOOD SCRUBS HUNGER STRIKE 1920 A rare photograph showing participants and supporters in the Wormwood Scrubs hunger strike of May 1920, taken in the grounds of the prison hospital, showing some 60 prisoners and supporters, with a tricolour marked 'RELEASE OR DEATH', with a few nurses. With a cutting from the Sunday Press, 9.12.1951, showing a similar photograph (same participants, not quite the same pose), identifying many of the participants, who include the hospital governor, Captain Luck, and his wife. 8 x 11 1/2 ins. (20 x 29 cms), unmounted. "

    See - www.adams.ie/7018-lot-386-WORMWOOD-SCRUBS-HUNGER-STRIKE-1...

Do War Time marriages last?

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  • 22 older comments, and then…
  • Suck Diesel said:
    www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marria...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    suckindeesel Excellent. Date established for us, and location at University Church. Can you make out Gertie's father's job?
  • Suck Diesel said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons No, but his farther’s job was National School Inspector.

    ‘On 26 June 1922, he was kidnapped by anti-treaty forces in reprisal for the arrest of anti-treaty officer, Leo Henderson; his kidnapping was a precipitating factor in the formal outbreak of the Irish Civil War, when government pro-treaty forces two days later attacked anti-treaty forces occupying the Four Courts.[1] O'Connell survived the fighting and spent the rest of the civil war as General Officer Commanding the Curragh Command.’

    They had two children
    O'Connell died on 19 February 1944, of a heart attack

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._%22Ginger%22_O%27Connell
  • Suck Diesel said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons ‘Draper’
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Doesn't look like Draper...

Wilson and Carswell have Reformed

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  • 26 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The DIA puts construction of the building at 1883-85
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Lowson were there in 1890. No Wilson, Carswell, or Photo shop.

    Lowson gone by 1901, Calvert stockbroking here.

    But McCulloch is in Queen's buildings both dates, and I see Charles & Russell photographers in 1901.

    I think we are between 1890 and 1901.
  • Philip Mayer said:
    The building on the left looks interesting.
    I hope somebody can identify it?
  • Carol Maddock said:
    philipgmayer The fancy one with the railings? That's the Reform Club itself, I think.
  • John Spooner said:
    Dissolution of partnership clearance sale of Wilson & Carswell advertised first in the Ulster Echo on 3rd February 1881, and the latest I can see is in the Portadown News on 29th May 1886.

    Breaking up is hard to do.

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