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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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Watching wedding watches

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  • 43 older comments, and then…
  • DannyM8 said:
    Welcome back. There was an English / Prendergast wedding at Ballyduff Church on the 12/06/1918 see Wedding Certificate.
    The Priest was Fr. Prendergast, Groom is John English (I saw some of his movies!) Bride is Ellen Christina Prendergast. Witnesses were Michael English and Mary Slattery.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Hope you had a good break!

    I found the same marriage as Danny, but too slow!
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Birth records continue until 1924, I don't see any English/Prendergast babies in Waterford
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Found them in Carrigmore, Clogheen, Tipperary.

    Edmund, Thomas, Anne, Eleanor.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Not often someone outguns Quickdraw McAuley! Well done, DannyM8...

Cuteness personified on the Mayors Walk

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    14 April 1919 was a Monday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    I think 21 Mayor's Walk is the pale house - maps.app.goo.gl
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Maurice Fennell and wife Johanna, née Brennan.

    The younger ones are Ellen May, 1917, and Mary Catherine Christina, 1918. Both have Mayor's Walk as address at birth.

    The older Bridget, 1915, has 10 Black Friars
  • John Spooner said:
    Niall McAuley I've seen 1919 newspaper references to a Maurice Fennell, who was a hardresser. His shop was at 10, Blackfriars.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    By 1926 they have added Johanna and Alice Veronica, and are living in a 5 room row house on Ballytruckle Road

Filled to the brim with girlish glee - or not?

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Six Miles from Bangor to Donaghadee"
  • Mike Grimes said:
    Street view:

    maps.app.goo.gl
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Thomas Muckle (?) - ancestors.familysearch.org

    "Thomas Muckle was born in 1832, in County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom as the son of Thomas Muckle. He married Agnes Magill on 8 March 1853, in Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Carrowdore, Greyabbey, County Down, Ireland in 1901. He died on 31 May 1911, in Ballycopeland, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, at the age of 79. "
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Mike Grimes Not terribly different architecturally but jeepers, the car clutter!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Ah! The Good Ol' Days - that enormous dead beast hanging outside the butcher's ...

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