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A handful of Shaws from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2024
The Courthouse from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2023
A big carriage and nearly a Beetle... from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2023
The wings of a dove? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2022
Betty bought a bit of Batty Butter from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded July 2022
The Phelan feeling from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2022
Tractor engine, Athy, Co. Kildare from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2017
Bridge and Stronghold - The following plates are not lettered and therefore not authentic, Athy, Co. Kerry from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded January 2017
Street, Athy, Co. Kildare from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded May 2016
Cromaboo bridge, first stone laid in 1796, Athy, Co. Kildare. from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2015
Street (running over bridge) Athy, Co. Kildare from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded January 2015

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Betty bought a bit of Batty Butter

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beachcomber australia said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons Thank you for the clock!🕒 14:49 and a SE wind ...
Bernard Healy said:
The Sea Bat - per Wikipedia: The Sea Bat is a 1930 American pre-Code melodrama thriller film directed by Lionel Barrymore and Wesley Ruggles, starring Raquel Torres, Charles Bickford and featuring Boris Karloff. Part of the film was filmed on location in Mazatlán, Mexico. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Lon Chaney, but he was too ill from throat cancer to undertake the project and died on August 26, 1930. The film concerns a community of sponge divers who are harassed by a large and hostile manta ray.
beachcomber australia said:
A different poster for the "All Talking" 1930 movie -
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sea_Bat
IMDB - www.imdb.com/title/tt0021345/
Spoiler Alert! The final scene (58 seconds) - youtu.be/Cu2c0qw-1TA
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
beachcomber australia Bernard Healy I see adverts in the Irish Times for showings of "The Sea Bat" for Dublin cinemas between 2nd and 7th March 1931.
Bernard Healy said:
beachcomber australia I tried to find the poster from the photo online but failed. However, the top-left lobby card from this link is very similar - sandwichauction.hibid.com/lot/62572-103803-45997/six-the-...

The Courthouse

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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Any idea why the Courthouse might be of interest to the Irish Tourist Association?
beachcomber australia said:
No idea why the ITA was interested, but it is an attractive building. Flickr is sometimes on the other side. In 2017 via Darryl Bond who says ... "Originally built as Athy's wooden corn exchange in the 1850s, but being tremendously unsuccessful in this role due to poor ventilation it was repurposed as a courthouse in the late 1800s. Burnt down by a lone-wolf IRA member who was later court martialled by said outfit, the building was rebuilt in a most impressive form using stone in 1928. Foley and O’Sullivan were the architects."
beachcomber australia said:
Hmm! It looks like the old building was also stone - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041589
John Spooner said:
Equity productions first tour started at Arklow on 26th March 1944, and played at Waterford in Easter week. It was "a new company of professional actors and actresses who are working on a Co-op (profit-sharing) basis " (Waterford Standard - Saturday 29 January 1944).
Deirge Del said:
beachcomber australia Seems like a little more information than available from the NIAH record#11505116 for Athy Courthouse, Emily square, Athy, though that does confirm build date of 1858 and original use as a corn exchange. It is describes as "Freestanding seven-bay two-storey Tudor Revival" with "ingle-storey open arcades to east and west sides, lower single-bay single-storey former porch to north end, two-storey judiciary rooms to south. It also said to service the wee matter of having public toilets and the social services office is there also.

The Phelan feeling

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Dubris said:
I am in awe of the stonework pattern painted on Phelan's front wall. I wonder what colours it was.
DannyM8 said:
I think there is a dog under the cart on the right.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Dubris We have come across similar paintwork before, could you imagine being the painter!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
DannyM8 I think you are right.
beachcomber australia said:
Earliest date - The Post Office on the left is "c. 1911" according to arrow.tudublin.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&co... The women coming out of the PO look 1915-ish to me. Long dresses and the beginnings of cloche hats. A later reverse view shows different, more elaborate telegraph poles, and more creeper on the tower.