Uploads from National Library of Ireland on The Commons, tagged fish, with geodata

Fisher Folk

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:29:17 -0700

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It's not often you see so many smiling faces in our early photographs, or men and women being natural and friendly with each other (by modern standards anyway), so here you have some of the fishing community of Ardglass, Co. Down...

Date: Circa 1910??

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_11294

D.I.Y. High Cross

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:41:19 -0700

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Bizarre construction altogether that can be seen here too. Did the plinth operate as a market stall?

We had no idea where this was, so many thanks to Leonard Bentley for identifying it as being beside St. Mary's Church, Athenry, Co. Galway!

My heartfelt thanks to whoever ripped off the guts of that auction poster which probably had lots of lovely location and dating information!

Date: 1860-1869

NLI Ref.: STP_1690

Salmon and Straw Boaters

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:37:12 -0800

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No mystery about this one really - just loved it for the rural idyll it portrays, and the smartest dressed anglers ever.

Think from the next one in this series, that it's just downstream (depending on your point of view) of the Old Weir Bridge in Killarney…

Date: 1890s?

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_04876

Grafton Street

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 07 May 2012 07:21:09 -0700

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Grafton Street in Dublin, long before pedestrianisation was even a twinkle in Dublin Corporation's eye. Check out the tags for the car registrations that are clear enough to read - the only one I'm unsure of is either ZD 6822 or 9822.

Niall McAuley very kindly rounded up the dates for ZC, ZD and IH registration plates:
IH 1 to IH 9999 (Dec 1903 - Jan 1952);
ZC 1 to ZC 9999 (Mar 1937 - Jan 1940);
ZD 1 to ZD 9999 (Jan 1940 - Jan 1947). And Niall gave us this Street View link.

Thanks to MKSeery for this contribution:
"RE date: The Ingersoll building is attributed in DIA to Robert George Hopcraft, who died in 1947.

Terry de Valera writes in 1986 Dublin Historical Record that Monument Café was one of the first café chains in Ireland (note added).

He also mentions other businesses on Grafton St in the early 1940s, from the Trinity end up: Mitchell's Café (opposite Wicklow St) - "haunt of groups of pugnacious middle-aged, very middle-class ladies", Millar & Beatty furniture shop, Knowles fruit shop, McConnell's fish merchants and poulterers, Monument Café, Roberts Café, Lambert Briens, and on the other side from the Green down to TCD: Noblett's sweet shop, and Kapp & Peterson."

Philip Ward has a very personal memory of Fannin's at no. 41 (next door to Keatinge's):
"No.41 is Fannin & Co, surgical and medical supplies and chemists at that location from the late 1800s to the mid sixties. My father worked there for many years. I remember visiting him as a young lad of 10 and looking at the Leeches for sale!"

More great information in from MKSeery on Keatinge's at no. 42:
"It looks like Keatinges were more than just plumbers and decorators, but scholars too! The shop appears in all the earlier Lawrence photos. A Mr Charles T Keatinge, with an address of Grafton St, was a Fellow of the Institute of British Decorators, and wrote a paper for JRSAI in 1900 entitled 'The Guild of Cutlers, Painter-Stainers and Stationers, Better Known as the Guild of St. Luke the Evangelist, Dublin'.
And one more little thing about Keatinges: an advert that appears (no date but "Saorstat" mentioned) states:
WE ARE CONTRACTORS for every kind of Building from the Foundations to the Final Coat of Paint We decorate homes in every county of Saorstat
Select Your Wall Papers and decide on your Scheme of Decoration in our Showrooms
42 GRAFTON STREET,DUBLIN
J. F. Keatinge & Sons, Ltd. Phone Dublin 224
Your smallest enquiry gets fullest attention "

Good old Thoms Street Directories also allowed MKSeery to confirm our date of Circa 1947 because he:
"had a look in Thom's for this part of Grafton St. Ingersoll (No. 40) is listed in 1947 but in 1948 No. 40 is Murphy (Jewellers) Ltd.

1947 listing for block below:
No. 43: Bolero Café and Dorothy Begley Confectioners
No. 42: JF Keatinge, contractors for building, plumbing and painting. Gregg School Ltd: Civil Service and Commercial Training School
No. 41: Fannin and Son Surgical Instrument Makers, medical booksellers and chemist. WE Scholl and Son, Manufacturers of Electromedical apparatus.
No. 40: Ingersoll Watch Co (in 1948 this was Murphy (Jewellers) Ltd.)
No. 39: Monument Café. Irish Telephone (New System) Co. Ltd.
No. 38: McConnell Ltd Fish Poultry Game Fruit and Provision Merchants.
No. 37: Monument Creamery. Margaret Gibson, dressmaker. The Parkside Press Ltd., Publishers.
No. 36: Levett and Frye Ltd, Grocers and Wine Merchants."

Date: Circa 1947

NLI Ref.: VAL 1678

April 25, 1910

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 01:27:22 -0700

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Presenting the fantastic interior of Flynn and Young's, Fishmongers & Poulterers of Conduit Lane, Waterford (telephone no. Waterford 104 should you wish to place an order). I'm hazarding salmon as being on sale, but there are lots of other fish in evidence, so all suggestions as to "make and model" of fish are welcome...

Date: Monday, 25 April 1910 at 12.45pm

NLI Ref.: P_WP_2015a

Fish Curing on Clare Island

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:39:34 -0700

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Information on this one from our catalogue:
Clare Island is in Clew Bay, Co. Mayo. The tower house in the photograph is known as Granuaile's Castle. A tower house is a medieval fortified house and was the stronghold of the O'Malley family, and it was most closely associated with Grace OMalley, the sixteenth century pirate queen who controlled a large section of the west coast. The tower house was later used as a coastguard building. Fish curing was an important industry on the island, the people at work on the beach are packing barrels with cured fish, and the barrels are stacked around the harbour. The Congested Districts Board became involved in the island in 1895 and encouraged the industry as a means to improve the local economy. This is the main harbour on the island.

beachcomberaustralia provided this link for an internal tour of Granuaile's Tower House, aka Carraigahowley or Rockfleet Castle.

Date: Circa 1897 as a starting point?
(presumably after 1891 as the CDB was set up in that year, and after 1895 as the industry looks well established?)

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_06776

Fish Market, Galway

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:41:46 -0700

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Wondering if there's any sign of our other Galway Fish Sellers in this crowd? This was very near where their photo was taken...

swordscookie found a link to the Galway Advertiser online, and if the article doesn't describe this photo, then it's describing one that must have been almost the same.

Nice restoration work done on this photo by Alasabyss!

Date: Circa 1905

NLI Ref.: EAS_2168

Seagulls

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:37:04 -0700

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A fishing trawler returning to Skerries, Co. Dublin with a full catch. Local seagulls are having a ball with unwanted fish bits thrown back in by one the fishermen.

Date: Circa 1960

NLI Ref.: TIL537

Catch of the Day

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:27:16 -0700

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Four women selling fish.

Thanks to those of you who pointed out that this is Spanish Parade on the Spanish Arch side of the Claddagh in Galway City. That's Claddagh Quay and Nimmo's Pier in the background.

According to colman.rushe this photo is mentioned in Peadar O'Dowd's book Down by the Claddagh, so I went off and got our copy of Down by the Claddagh (1993), and there indeed is this photo with the caption underneath:
"Bringing the fish to market: As this postcard (printed in Berlin) states, four Irish Fish Wifes make their way up along Long Walk to the fish market in front of the Spanish Arch or An Póirse Caoch (the Blind Arch) as it was known then. (Courtesy Jimmy O'Connor)

Now, a bigger challenge would be to identify some of the women, and we have received very tentative information that these women may be Nonnie O'Donnell, Mary Rodgers, Kitty Conneely and a Mrs Gill, all from the Claddagh. Does that ring any bells?

Date: Circa 1905

NLI Ref.: Eas 4055

High Street, Belfast

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:23:41 -0700

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Date: Circa 1906

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_02415