irishpacket

Parliament St. Kilkenny

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 20 older comments, and then…
• B-59 said:

  Streetview 2014: goo.gl/maps/jTnyNYFZXCQ2

• O Mac said:

  Billboard for "The Irish Packet" . This magazine was first published by the Freeman's Journal in 1903 tThe Irish Packet "A popular penny weekly of 'fact, fun and fiction'. Ran a lot of short stories including work by Katharine Tynan, Justin McCarthy, William Boyle, Jane Barlow, J.D. Guinan, William Buckley. Issues & Index Sources: 1903 – 1909 Editors: M. M'D. Bodkin Formats: small tabloid Prices: 1d Frequency: weekly" Date range 1903-1909 puts it in conflict with the catalogues 1900 upper limit?

• B-59 said:

  The "McGrath" shop sign still exists (but not the original one), s. www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

• B-59 said:

  O Mac Confirmed in irishmediahistory.com/tag/irish-packet/: "The Irish Packet was a story paper owned and run by the Freeman’s Journal newspaper. It began publication in October 1903 ..."

• Carol Maddock said:

  O Mac That 1880-1900 was probably an educated guesstimate, not to be taken as gospel in the case of the Lawrence Collection. And exactly why the investigations undertaken here are so useful to Library Towers and the national collection!