spectacles

58 photos and 21 illustrations tagged spectacles, from 14 members of Flickr Commons.

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W.B. Yeats

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 13 older comments, and then…
  • Swordscookie said:
    That's a fabulous exhibition I'll have to save time to go through it but it looks brilliant at first sight! For a 58 year old he looks very frail and elderly. I suspect that if I had used my brain daily as he did I might be more worn out by now as well;-)
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie Oh, I think you give your brain plenty of daily exercise! ;)
  • Swordscookie said:
    Perhaps I'll have a look in the mirror so?
  • philip ward said:
    That online exhibition is pretty impressive.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    philip ward Glad you like it! Did you ever get to visit "in the flesh"?

Mother & Son

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Swordscookie said:
    WOW!!! What a lovely photograph of the mother and her son. I could look at that all day and marvel at the image. A poet in his finery with the loving mother by his side, dressed in their day to day clothes and posing for the gentleman/woman with the camera. Look at the hat on the ground, at the weather beaten skin on their faces and hands, the long strong fingers of the man and the well worn shoes on the pair of them? Magic!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie And her wedding ring has become very loose on her fingers as they've shrunk with age... Did check to see if we have a copy of that poem in our collections, but if we do, it's not individually catalogued. Maybe in our collections of street poems and ballads.
  • Swordscookie said:
    On Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Brigid's_Well it says that a wandering poet once wrote - "On St Brigid’s Eve, as night fell, My mother and I went to Saint Brigid’s Well, Where the candles do burn and the great walls do shine on the graves of the dead and the vaults of O’Brien" Could those be the words of our Poet friend above? It would be great to find out and get the entire text.
  • @ltin zaçe said:
    great old photography ...
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Swordscookie Wouldn't that be amazing?

March 11, 1961

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • oaktree_brian_1976 said:
    that's a mighty barren office, no pics of the kids, no calendar... even more depressing in black and white....
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    oaktree_brian_1976 Guess this was pre-kids' photos on desk days, and ahem, but there is a calendar - top right!
  • Ciarán Cooney said:
    Like what appears to be the working timetable hung on the wall, rather worn it looks too!
  • Flapweb said:
    outstanding period photo!
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Ciarán Cooney Definitely well thumbed by Foreman John Casey, I'd say...