queenstown

39 photos and 7 illustrations tagged queenstown, from 5 members of Flickr Commons.

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2019

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The stranded Celtic off Cobh from Liberas uploaded November 2025
U.S.S. Constellation after a "very anxious and boisterous passage" from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded August 2023
Top Brass from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2021
Rostillon Castle, Aghada, Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2019
British Library digitised image from page 508 of "An Illustrated History of the New World: containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the Western Continent. Comprising the earliest discoveries ... an account of the A from British Library uploaded March 2018
British Library digitised image from page 319 of "Our own country. Descriptive, historical, pictorial" from British Library uploaded September 2017
Harbour, Queenstown, Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded March 2017
Emigrants leaving. Scotts Quay, Queenstown from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2016
The Rileys - Survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania, Cobh (formerly Queenstown), Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded October 2016
British Library digitised image from page 67 of "Illustrated Handbook to Cork, the Lakes of Killarney, and the South of Ireland ... From the Irish Tourists' Handbook [or rather 'The Tourists' Illustrated Handbook for Ireland']" from British Library uploaded September 2016
Admiralty House from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2016
West Beach, Queenstown, Co. Cork from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded June 2016
Arrival of Governor at Queenstown Station (1894) from Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) uploaded June 2016
West Lyell open-cut mine, pure copper being loaded onto rail trucks, 1953 from Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) uploaded May 2016
Abt railway section, Mt Lyell. Beattie photograph from Tasmanian Archives and State Library (Commons) uploaded May 2016

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The Rileys - Survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania, Cobh (formerly Queenstown), Co. Cork

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

27 older comments, and then…
DannyM8 said:
The following is a list of all survivors under 10 years of age. ANTILA, Master Carl4 MARICHAL, Miss Phyllis Renée4 RICHARDS, Master Cecil Harry4 RILEY, Miss Ethel4 RILEY, Miss Sutcliffe4 LEWIS, Miss Edith5 MARICHAL, Miss Yvonne “Eve”5 PEARL, Master Stuart Duncan Day5 SMITH, Miss Helen6 FRANKUM, Master Francis7 KAY, Master Robert Belsher7 MAINMAN, Master Edwin Richard7 MAINMAN, Miss Elizabeth7 RICHARDS, Master Thomas Percy7 BRAMMER, Miss Edith8 FISH, Miss Marion Enid8 SCOTT, Master Arthur, Jr.8 WILLIAMS, Miss Edith9 www.rmslusitania.info/people/lusitania-survivors/
B-59 said:
I think the children could be 4 years old, and it's the Riley family: www.geni.com/people/Edward-Riley/6000000021221438693
B-59 said:
See www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/lest-we-forget-the-lusitani...: Riley, Mr. Edward. Riley, Mrs. Annie. Riley, Miss Ethel. 4. Riley, Master Sutcliffe. 4. (www.geni.com/people/Emily-Riley/6000000021221483732 gives the name of the daughter as Emily)
B-59 said:
The same woman and the two children are visible in sites.google.com/site/thegreatlusitania/survivors
DannyM8 said:
I think this is the building? www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8504289,-8.2944663,3a,75y,282.1...

West Beach, Queenstown, Co. Cork

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

25 older comments, and then…
B-59 said:
Streetview 2011: goo.gl/maps/T5akQ9jEzPq
O Mac said:
Surely this is East Beach?
Frank Fullard said:
This is wonderful!
beachcomber australia said:
Outside the Medical Hall / Chemist, there is a curvy lady (Gibson Girl?) advertising some kind of drink. How is your eyesight? Can anyone read the letters? [Al]mond S----- ?? See note and megazoom™.
Wendy: said:
terrific details; great post!

Queenstown, where soldiers found a home, and sailors their rest

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

46 older comments, and then…
heady school said:
When did the Cathedral get it's spire?
DannyM8 said:
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyelightfilms] New side chapel & sacristy (Blessed Thaddeus Chapel and sacristy built by John Sisk); completion of tower & spire (spire built by J. Maguire, Cork); carving to front by Harrison & Sons; further additions. Consecrated Aug 1919.
Swordscookie said:
It's a cracker of a shot with tremendous detail in it. Obviously taken from a very stable base given the clarity. The Pissoir is indeed different but not too different really though it looks as though it can only accomodate two and with a decent degree of seperation! I can't see any dogs yet but I am sure that somebody will;-)
Swordscookie said:
National Library of Ireland on The Commons Carol, have you any idea what has been crossed out between Queenstown and WL? Is it a date and do you know it??????????
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Swordscookie Off to have a look at the super-duper-sized (technical term) image! Please hold, your call is important to us...