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"Business as Usual"

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 11 older comments, and then…
  • Stuart said:
    Great description, thank you for that insight.
    Stuart.
  • John FitzPatrick Leisen said:
    Thank you,..Respect..!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Thanks John and Stu! But there's one major omission - no date. Would REALLY appreciate some help in this regard...
  • Peter Denton said:
    I had absolutely no idea that there was ever a Sinn Féin bank. Thank you for this fascinating piece of history.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Peter Denton You're very welcome, Peter! But will only rest easy when we establish a date for this picture... :)

Skeleton of the Metropole Hotel

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 3 older comments, and then…
  • Fotoamateur62 said:
    Great shot
  • Maskingfaces said:
    Very somber, the lighting on the walls makes it all the more so.
  • Tammy said:
    wow, what a treasured photo
  • heady school said:
    I've got two photos from an old family photo album taken about the same time and in the same place.



  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    [http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyelightfilms] Amazing to have them! Especially like the head-on shot of the G.P.O. Isn't it quite incredible to imagine what it must have felt like to walk down O'Connell Street (Sackville Street as was) through such utter devastation?

Ship's carpenter getting into a diving suit before checking the schooner's hull, Aru Islands Regency, 1908

from State Library of Queensland

  • Vesna Verencevic said:
    Pearling has been carried out in Indonesian waters from very early times, with local divers collecting the shell. Some of the Indonesian divers went a con-siderable distance in search of shell. As Europeans extended their presence in the north of Australia, they saw Indonesians collecting pearls in Australian waters. The Aru Islands have been, and still are, one of the principal pearl-shell grounds in Indonesia. Al-though quite off the track of all European trade, these islands had by the early 19th century become the eastern terminus for the annual fleet of Bugis prahus from Ma-kassar (The Buginese are traders and seaborne colonists from south Sulawesi; see map, Fig. 2.) They were a source not only of pearls and mother-of-pearl, hut of such exotics as birds of paradise, tortoiseshell, trepang or sea slug, and edible birds’ nests. The British naturalist Alfred Wallace did the 1000-mile journey to the remote islands in a Bugis prahu in the 1850s (Fig. 4) and considered it quite an achieve-ment. “Even by the Makassar people themselves the voyage to the Aru Islands is looked upon as a rather wild and romantic expedi-tion, full of novel sights and strange adventures. He who has made it is looked up to as an authority, and it remains with many the unachieved ambition of their lives. I myself had hoped rather than expected ever to reach this “Ultima Thule” of the East…” (Wallace 1869:309). Source: www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/sampans-belangs-and-junkos/