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

Dublin Bread Company revisited

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 02:07:08 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

We recently saw the Dublin Bread Company building at 6-7 Lower Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) in a state of chassis after the Easter Rising of 1916.

I think that this photograph captures the very final stages of its construction, just before opening?!

Date: Circa July 1900?

P.S. On Monday, 20 March 1865 (148 years ago), our very own William Lawrence was announcing the opening of his new Photographic Studio on the first floor of 7 Upper Sackville Street - just down the street near Nelson's Pillar!

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_01704

The Laughing Lady of Castle Street

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:33:47 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Bustling street scene at Castle Street, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, complete with lovely laughing lady (and a random dog to keep DannyM8 happy). Also, don't think we usually see someone actually captured riding a bike in these earlier photographs...

Date: Circa 1910??

NLI Ref.: EAS_3446

The Square, Rathdowney, Co. Laois, 1990

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:30:03 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Taken by photographer, Matilda Cooney, who noted that the scene was "pretty much unaltered".

You can compare this view of The Square at Rathdowney with its companion photo taken approximately 90 years earlier as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Date: Tuesday, 4 September 1990 at 10:45 (weather conditions - sunshine)

NLI Ref.: LPP_31/5

Trinity College Dublin, 1990

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 01:23:35 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Taken by photographer, Colin Scudds. And for all the modernisation in the intervening years, it makes me laugh that there's horse dung is in this shot...

You can compare this view of Trinity College with its companion photo taken approximately 90 years earlier as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Date: Wednesday, 22 August 1990 at 15:30 (weather conditions - sunny with a little cloud)

NLI Ref.: LPP_22/15

Egyptian Arch, Newry, Co. Down, 1990

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:00:40 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Taken by photographer, Liam Murtagh, who was absolutely excellent and presumably waited patiently until he could capture a vehicle passing under the arch at just the same point as the cart in the original Lawrence photograph.

You can compare this view of the Egyptian Arch with its companion photo taken approximately 85 years earlier as part of the Lawrence Photographic Project 1990/1991, where one thousand photographs from the Lawrence Collection in the National Library of Ireland were replicated a hundred years later by a team of volunteer photographers, thereby creating a record of the changing face of the selected locations all over Ireland.

For further information on the Lawrence Photographic Project, read all about it on our NLI Blog.

Date: Monday, 10 September 1990 at 11:15 (weather conditions - sunny)

NLI Ref.: LPP_13/3

Capel Street, Dublin at 9.30 am

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:57:31 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Not a railway photo from James P. O'Dea, but instead a Dublin streetscape. Taken 52 years ago today...

Date: Tuesday, 28 June 1960

NLI Ref.: ODEA 20/94

Clock House, Mallow

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:08:17 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Following a gentle nudge from guliolopez yesterday, that he'd been "waiting patiently for a Cork photo for a while", I thought we might indulge him with another today. We don't want to get on the wrong side of anyone from the People's Republic! So, here's a gorgeous one of Mallow taken at about 4.55 on a very sunny day...

Thanks to Gerry Ward for filling in the blanks in our knowledge about the gorgeous Clock House:
"The Clock House was build around 1855, by Sir Denham Orlando Jephson. He was an amateur architect who is said to have designed this house after he had returned from an alpine holiday. The Clock was brought from the tower of the Old Mallow Castle. The bell was cast at Millerd Street, Cork. The bell tower became dangerous and was removed c1970, but was restored in 1995."

Date: Circa 1901??

NLI Ref.: EAS_0906