tomclarke

We drove the Danes out of Ireland over 1000 years ago and there are still shiploads of them off our west coast! Are they heading to Greenland to repel the US invasion?????

Question of the day.
Why is the Honeymoon of Maggie and Jiggs represented on the map?

beachcomber australia There's a good Limerick in there somewhere.

and several dogs !.... and a lion pair too

Foxglove I saw them first!

The Glasnevin Trust has a numbered version available, with some of the names already filled in.

Sharon Corbet That cuts out most of the fun of the shot Sharon but it is interesting how many major players were present!

There are more names available in this Examiner article.

Swordscookie The numbering is helpful, though :-)

Keogh had to have taken the photograph from the roof of the Boland Chapel. Streetview The grave to bottom right is that of William Dargan another nation "builder". James O Dea's photographs are mostly of his work. "St. James’s Brass and Reed Band, Mount Brown, Dublin 8, is by far Ireland’s oldest band. It was established in 1800 but early records trace back as far as 1737."

Yikes - it's still there, but looks like imminent redevelopment ...
maps.app.goo.gl/btitwkD4mUuerCbH6 (October 2024)

beachcomber australia Yikes indeed!

Is that Mr Clarke's head reflected in the window as he points his Box Brownie ?! Under the first 5 in 55.

The building across the street is also reflected. Dunno what it was / is. See streetview.

"The Old Age Pensions Act was passed in Parliament on May 7, 1908
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Age_Pensions_Act_1908

O Mac Thank you. The other headlines on that newsboard should help us narrow it down.

Looking inside, he does seem to be a newsboard hoarder (newsboarder).