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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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Inches to the foot - Perches to the acre!

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  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    NB - North is at 4 o'clock. Going by the pattern of the roads, I think this is the area on GoogleMapsSatellite -
    www.google.com

    The brown area on the satellite is marked as bog on the map.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Bottom right(-ish) is "Clonbrock Desmene". Is that our old friends, the Dillons, and The Great Augusta ?
  • O Mac said:
    Here's a "Pin" placed where the 48 is in that triangular pink field on the right above. Note Google map is rotated such as North is facing SE as per map above.
    maps.app.goo.gl
  • beachcomber australia said:
    O Mac Your map is the right way up - how confusing !
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia "Deep Undivided Bog"! And deffo our Augusta and Co.

Once more unto the Bridge, dear friends

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    I’m thinking very early 1900s, electric trams

    Pachmann returned to Dublin for subsequent standard UK/Irish tours during his long career (which lasted until his retirement in the late 1920s). These later concert stops were typically organized around his heavy London performance blocks.These concerts frequently took place at the Antient Concert Rooms on Great Brunswick Street (Pearse Street
  • Dún Laoghaire Micheál said:
    Suck Diesel
    Just maybe -
    Freemans Journal 29 May 1899
    "PIANOFORTE RECITALS BY DE PACHMANN.
    Fourteen years have elapsed since Viadimir De Pachmann, the Russian pianist, played to a Dublin audience. That long interval has anything but effaced the memory of him. On the contrary, at the first of the two recitals to be given on the occasion of his present visit, which took place at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon in the Antient Concert Hall . . ."
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Dún Laoghaire Micheál Very possibly.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Dún Laoghaire Micheál Yes, could be earlier than I first thought
    Route no. 8 to Dalkey was electrified 12 July 1898
  • Noel Treacy said:
    A picture of the time ball ! "After one. Timeball on the ballast office is down" Ulysses

The Post Office - a home from home!

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Bridge St, NLS, sadly
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The coronation of Edward VII and his wife, Alexandra, as king and queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 9 August 1902. Originally scheduled for 26 June of that year, the ceremony had been postponed at very short notice, because the King had been taken ill
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The poster says 26 June, so it was put up before the cancellation, and would surely have been replaced before the event.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The dia says the PO was built 1895-97, but cryptically adds Fittings 1904 dia.ie
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The other poster is for the Adder, a steamer sailing between Belfast and Ardrossan in Scotland.

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