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While James stands contemplating where his next fare might come from the "Back to the Future" DeLorean screams to a stop behind him!

  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • O Mac said:
    The iconic Ulster Bank building (1885 - 1895) not yet built.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    O Mac Thank you. That lops 20 years off the date.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    For comparison and previous dating information ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    The 1876 Grattan statue is not even there in some early Stereo Pairs.
    eg - catalogue.nli.ie etc

    There, but no fancy lamps - catalogue.nli.ie - when were they added?

    'Come Here to Me' was asking (2014) for dating help - comeheretome.com
  • Swordscookie said:
    beachcomber australia I was looking at this and thinking that the streetscape was all wrong for O'Connell St. And yet Morning Mary is seldom wrong. Big boo-boo this time

To the Seanad, with love!

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Read All About It - www.ria.ie
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Senators will agree that we should place no emblem before us in this Assembly that is not of Ireland, in spirit and in workmanship, carrying in it the faith both of the Old Irish world and of the New. I have insisted, therefore, that the form of the casket should go back in direct descent to the ‘shrines’ designed by the Irish over a thousand years ago”

    www.ria.ie
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Looks a bit like an owl with beautiful blue eyes.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Mia Cranwill (born Maria Cranwill; 1 March 1880 – 20 October 1972) was an Irish designer and metal artist, and was one of the leading artists of the Irish Celtic Revival.
    ...
    One of her most significant pieces was commissioned by Alice Stopford Green, it was to create a metal casket for a scroll with the signatures of the Free State senators. The casket, known as the Senate Casket, has gold, silver, and enamel on a copper foundation. The shape is based on that of the Gallarus Oratory.[5] Upon its completion in 1924, it received universal praise, being exhibited at the NMI and the Manchester Art Federation. When the Senate was dissolved in 1936, it was presented to the Royal Irish Academy.[4] Newland Smith reviewed the casket, described Cranwill was a "designer and craftswoman who understands the national Irish style and can interpret it, create anew within it, and add to the old and delightful forms a personality and expression quite new" ...


    via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Cranwill
  • beachcomber australia said:
    "The shape is based on that of the Gallarus Oratory..." YES!

    via en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallarus_Oratory

Last Farewell to the Chief

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    An estimated 500,000 people lined the streets of Dublin to pay their final respects as the cortege made its way to Glasnevin Cemetery
  • beachcomber australia said:
    28 August 1922 was a Monday ...
    14:20 by the clock top right (I could be wrong)
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Before or after this one ? The crowd seems to be looking south ...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Pathe

    youtu.be
  • Foxglove said:
    Two dogs....