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Some background history, including this photo - lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/kilb...

"... Another noteworthy inclusion [to a book] is Ryanair co-founder Tony Ryan, who changed the face of European aviation after he established the low fares airline in 1985. A Thurles native who lived just outside Nenagh at Kilboy House, Ryan’s entrepreneurial genius saw him amass a fortune of €1.5 billion before his death in 2007. ... " from www.nenaghguardian.ie/news-detail.php?article=FYTJRT

beachcomber australia Nice little blog post, and this photo plus the image and description of the house confirms that it was taken at Kilboy. And Tony Ryan living there is another priceless little nugget of information. Thank you!

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The spectacular steps are visible on the OS 25" at GeoHive.

"Samuel Simpson Sharpe (March 13, 1873 – May 25, 1918) was a lawyer and political figure in Ontario, Canada. He represented Ontario North in the Canadian House of Commons from 1909 to 1917 as a Conservative and from 1917 to 1918 as a Unionist Party member." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Simpson_Sharpe See also www.parl.gc.ca/ParlInfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=0... In January 1913 he asserted that the U.S. navy "is composed largely of desperate men who are no good socially of Morally" (East Oregonian : E.O., January 20, 1913, EVENING EDITION, Image 1, co. 3, "CRITIC OF NAVY IS CONTRADICTED") See also The Washington herald., January 19, 1913, Image 1, col. 4, "AMERICAN NAVY DESTITUTES' HOME".

B-59, thanks for the biographical information on Mr. Sharpe. Thanks also for locating his quote about the Navy. We'll update our catalog record.

Jim Martin was the first publican of Helensburgh’s re-built Centennial Hotel in 1915. The original old single-storey timber Centennial sat on the opposite side of the road. It closed and had its license transferred to a swanky two-storey brick building in May 1915. The owners, the Hanley family, in partnership with brewers Tooth and Company opened the new Centennial in May 1915. Jim was put in charge of Hanley’s new pub. Born in 1885, his first forte into the hotel trade came in 1913 when he took the reins of the Hotel Pacifique on the Queensland NSW border at Tweed Heads. Jim was just 28. Tweed Heads’ tourist industry kept him and wife Christina in a profitable business for the short time they remained as hosts. Why he chose to leave such a profitable and thriving business to take up the license of a newly built pub in a small coal mining village on the NSW south coast remains a mystery. Source: timegents.com/2015/07/25/the-tweeds-heroic-publican/