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No. 1 Merrion Square, home of Oscar Wilde, Dublin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Streetview
  • Swordscookie said:
    Mr. Wilde in typically relaxed pose!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The Austin/Morris Mini Mk II (see note) was released at the October 1967 British Motor Show. Which means this photo is late in 1967. Edit - Wrong! It is a mark I mini YZA 855 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000048466 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini#Mark_II_Mini:_1967.E2.80.931970 We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the cars stars.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I note that the swan necked lamp posts which we have discussed many times in dating pics of College Green and environs survive on Merrion Square to this day.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The building at left (distance) seems to say Gaeltachta on it, and in larger writing NN.

Escorting the Presidential No 7?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    More information than is necessary about the No. 7 LEYLAND double-decker bus ... ...

    Chassis - 494312
    Type - OPD2/1
    Registration - ZJ4408
    Body Number - CIE
    Seating - H36/30R
    New - 5/1950
    Owner - Coras Iompair Eireann (IE)
    Fleet Number - R444

    Via - www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk/index.htm?https://www.buslists... , 'Control+f' using "ZJ4408"
  • beachcomber australia said:
    2nd thoughts - photo must be after "5/1950" when the bus was new.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Were you only allowed have your goggles down when belting along an open road?

    And at least they didn't have to use the other day's boot mechanism to hold their rifles!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Wow! The swish car the motorcycles are escorting is [Z]H1333, seen better in the next photo. And it is still alive and well in Co. Clare. ... ...
    "1947 Dodge D24 custom 4-door limousine car, once owned by Eamon de Valera, registration number ZH 1333."

    From - claremuseum.ie/explore/objects/1947-dodge-d24-custom-4-do...

    Edit - The Clare Museum link above has a great history and details of the car. 👀
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Thank you. Date amended.

A picture of a picture picturing the picture?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:

    "The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife"
    by Daniel Maclise (1806-1870) c. 1854 (315 x 513 cm)
    See - www.nationalgallery.ie/art-and-artists/highlights-collect...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    From the link above - "The subject of this monumental and meticulously detailed picture is the marriage at Waterford in 1170 of the Norman military adventurer Richard de Clare, known as Strongbow, and the daughter of Dermot McMurrough, King of Leinster. The union has often been identified as representing the formal establishment of a Norman foothold in Ireland. Conceived for the decoration of the Palace of Westminster, the painting is an ambiguous representation of the victorious Normans and the vanquished Irish. Strongbow places his foot upon a fallen Celtic cross, King Dermot looks on in alarm, and an elderly musician slumps on his harp."
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Ireland in Schools
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Via www.flickr.com/photos/8042379@N06/
  • John Spooner said:
    According to Wikitree.com, Richard de Clare (Stongbow*) is my grandmother's half-sister's sister's husband's grandfather's sister's grandson's wife's 22x great grandfather (and probably yours, or something similar). aka Uncle Strongbow Edit: corrected