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Is she old enough to drive that thing? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded December 2011
November 14, 1922 - Turnips? Swedes? A.N. Other? from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2011
November 13, 1942 from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded November 2011
September 10, 1943 from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded September 2011
September 6, 1943 from National Library of Ireland on The Commons uploaded September 2011
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November 13, 1942
- Liliana hollaender said:
- National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
September 10, 1943
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desmondg47 said:
Power's Nursery site on the Dunmore Road in Waterford, now the site of the Glenville housing development
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
desmondg47 Description amended and now this photo's on our Flickr map, thanks to you!
November 14, 1922 - Turnips? Swedes? A.N. Other?
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Swordscookie said:
I'm a kind of a city fella but I always thought swedes were blonde??? Seriously I thought that swedes were smaller and whiter than these. Apparently these were rarely used for human consumption until WW1, they were used to feed animals until then. When I was growing up they were referred to as Mangols!
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National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
Swordscookie Well, some of this series of photos are described as Swedish Turnips which I think was the photographer hedging his bets!
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James Morley said:
My instinct is swede, but then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabaga whilst known as swede in most British English speaking countries, this is known as turnip in Ireland!!!
And then according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip "The leaves grow directly from the above-ground shoulder of the root, with little or no visible crown or neck (as found in rutabagas)" [rutabaga=swede - see link above!]. This seems to again make these swedes (in the British English sense, but not the Irish sense!) as the ones shown here DO have a neck I feel. -
Piquant Harbor said:
They look like swedes - turnips are much smaller and flatter. Swedes have orange flesh, turnips white.
Just to confuse matters, swedes were known as turnips where I grew up in Yorkshire (1950s) and they're called neeps in Scotland. -
National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
So far, the Swedes seem to have it! And [http://www.flickr.com/photos/22562862@N06] isn't there a traditional dish in Scotland that's "something and neeps" or "neeps and something", just like bacon and cabbage here?