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I would love this photo just to place up on my neighborhood street to get the drivers to slow down and drive more cautiously. What might I do to get to re-print this wonderful photo?

PurpleDragon2020 For your own use, no problem at all, just download one of the larger sizes. If you're blogging it, etc. please just acknowledge the National Library of Ireland, and provide a link back to this image... Just as with the children above, we only ask that you play nice with our photos! :)

[As seen on the TV3 program] The sign must have worked - they built York road over the wall to take the traffic away. But now the locals are concerned about dog poo! GoogleStreetView - g.co/maps/xtsnb

beachcomber australia How posh are we? Now we get to say that some of our Flickr photos are "as seen on TV"! :D

GoogleMaps satellite 3D shows a huge amount of rebuilding, renewal, and reclamation - www.google.com/maps/@53.3384029,-6.2138665,796a,35y,345.7...

Of interest, the history of Alexandra Basin - www.coastal.ie/coastal-education-news/finding-dublins-dee...

The man behind it, Bindon B. Stoney in the 1901 census as Civil Engineer. From the dib we learn he had other interests: After attending TCD, where in 1850 he obtained his BA and a diploma in civil engineering with distinction, he immediately joined his elder brother at the observatory of William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse (qv), at Parsonstown (Birr) to assist with astronomical observations using what was then the world's largest telescope. Stoney improved the known delineation of nebulae and determined the spiral nature of the great nebula in Andromeda.

Interesting family, from Wikipedia His brother was the physicist George Johnstone Stoney known for coining the term electron for the fundamental unit of electricity.

At the bottom edge appear to be two tugs (to my untrained eye). A picture in the Irish Independent on Wednesday 21 March 1956 shows "The British steamer Cotopaxi being taken from her berth at Alexandra Basin by the Port tug Coliemore after she had discharged the general cargo she had brought from South America. " Online info and photos of the Dublin tug Coliemore are of a different vessel (built 1962).

According to wikipedia, F215 in 1960 would have been: F215 Graf Spee (the former HMS Flamingo) (1959–67)

She was sold to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, where she was renamed "Graf Spee" and used as a cadet training ship... During her service she undertook a series of training trips abroad , often with her ​​sister ship "Hipper" they i.a. repeatedly resulted in American port cities , from Victoria ( British Columbia ) in the north to Valparaiso and to Cape Horn in the South Pacific .

S. also www.bundesarchiv.de/oeffentlichkeitsarbeit/bilder_dokumen... The Graf Spee was in Dublin together with the Hipper (F214) The ships returned to Germany on June 17, 1960 www.facebook.com/marinekalendarium/photos/pcb.76713335338...

I think the building behind the bow of the ship is Ringsend Tech which we saw last week. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/30691019416/in/dateposted/

Irish Times 8th June 1960