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A wikipedia article explaining these "overprints".

The text means "Provisional Government of Ireland", for the non-Irish speakers out there.

Better have the OSI ref :-) maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,715806,734655,7,9

We have an old stamp collection in the house, I climbed up to the attic to take a few photo just now. High value Stamps - note different overprints than in the photo above. Here is one with the overprint inverted and one with the date missing these are proofs of the actual overprints a set of the low value stamps up to 1s. some of the overprints were in red too

I suspect that what makes these especially significant is the fact that it is the "Provisional Government" and was prior to the split that led to the Civil War! There are similar stamps issued in 1922/23 with "Saorstát na hÉireann" overprinted and they are definitely after the split!

13 June 1911 was a Tuesday, and the horse had no name ...

We were here previously, two weeks earlier -

The Marine Bar was a newly-built 7-day licensed premises at no. 10 Merchants' Quay. (notice of auction Waterford Standard - Saturday 10 June 1911). 'Newly-built' seems to be stretching it a bit - the lease began on 25th March 1900. "The Shop and Bar are tastefully tiled and fitted with handsome Counters, Shelves and Glass Cases, with Mirrored backs, and Decorated Ceiling."

Waterford Standard - Tuesday 25 October 1910:

FRONT WALL ALLEGED TO BE DANGEROUS

At the City Petty Sessions on Friday, the Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses, being the Corporation of Waterford, sought an order against Christopher Dunne, owner of premises in Barronstrand-street, occupied by Mrs. Dollard, requiring him to take down a front wall which is dangerous to the public.

To summarise the rest of the account, Mr Dunne's solicitor Mr Keane said that during the construction of the Provincial Bank (is that the building on the left?) , several old walls had been removed which had caused subsidence. and he had photographs showing the subsidence.

Struts had been put in place supporting the building, and hoardings keeping the public from the building at risk of collapse, but there had been complaints that the hoardings "caused much obstuction"

After much debate and evidence from the Borough Surveyor, the magistrates agreed to adjourn the case until the next sessions.

Excellent collection of posters in both plates. Mullingar Races are gone but replaced by Cunard and White Star Line posters. We have discussed both of these posters before. Nonetheless it does provide a reference date for both.

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Oakley John Dollard (October 12, 1895 - May 21, 1944), Naval Aviator No. 378.