Uploads from National Library of Ireland on The Commons, tagged dublin

Howth-on-Sea

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:48:17 -0700

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Gloriously sunny day (even in black and white) at Howth, Co. Dublin.

Date: Circa 1905? (info. from the excellent Hurdy Gurdy Museum of Vintage Radio in Howth)

Dusting off my own Bathing Machine and heading away for a couple of weeks. Talk to you all soon - if the wheels don't fall off...

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_02975

Good King Billy

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:53:20 -0700

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Statue of William III aka William of Orange on College Green/Dame Street in Dublin.

This statue is long gone from the Dublin streetscape. When did he appear? When did he disappear? Where did he go?

Date: Circa May 1890

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_02993

Mansion of Misery

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:32:25 -0700

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Very atmospheric photo altogether taken by Elinor Wiltshire at Dublin's Marshalsea Barracks.

Because of Little Dorrit, Marshalsea conjures up the idea of a debtors' prison for me. Is that what it originally was, does anyone know, even if it was an ex-Barracks by the time this was taken in 1969?

Date: 1969

NLI Ref.: WIL 59[7]

We're a Couple of Swells

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:55:41 -0700

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Two gentlemen admire the statue of Edmund Burke outside Trinity College Dublin.

Date: 1860-1883

NLI Ref.: STP_1257

XXI OCTOBER MDCCCV

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:52:55 -0700

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We've seen shots of Nelson's Pillar before, but usually in the distance or in a state of chassis following its blowing up in March 1966, so I was delighted to find this fine view of it in our Eason Collection.

This photo also gives us a joyous assortment of trams - the no. 8 to Dalkey; the no. 29 to Fairview; the no. 20 to Rialto Bridge; and I think the no. 3 to Westland Row and Ringsend; and a car with reg. no. IK 9729.

There's also an infuriatingly obscured news poster which seems to be screaming about "Startling Evidence"!

Date: Circa 1927?

NLI Ref.: EAS_1758

New Living Pictures

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:45:11 -0700

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It's killing me that I can't read the detail on the posters outside the Rotunda Round Room, but thought you might like this one in any case...

There're our gorgeous "bollards" again, and I'm wondering if the garland on the monument can help at all with dating?

Date: Circa Spring 1913 (thank you Denis Condon)

NLI Ref.: EAS_1681

The Hell Fire Club

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 01:09:45 -0700

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Home of debauchery and devil worship or a gentleman's club? (Maybe the two aren't mutually exclusive!) Generations of Dubliners have been regaled with lurid tales of the goings-on in the Hell Fire Club at Killakee in the Dublin Mountains.

Would love to know more about this legendary place and hoping that you can help us separate fact from fiction, while not sparing any of the gory details of course!

Date: Circa 1910??

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_09345

Penny Farthing

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:10:26 -0700

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Not sure if we've seen St. Stephen's Green in Dublin from this angle before. There isn't the usual clarity of a Lawrence Collection photograph, but when I spotted the Penny Farthing, this one was irresistible.

Date: Circa 1890?? (definitely between September 1880 and January 1900)

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_02263

Dublin Bread Company revisited

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

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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

Waiting on Westland Row

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:06:15 -0800

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Crowds waiting to meet prisoners released under general amnesty.

This photo must have been taken from the railway bridge at Westland Row station as was (Pearse Station now).

Date: Monday morning, 18 June 1917 (thanks DannyM8)

NLI Ref.: Ke 125

Dublin Bread Company

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 00:46:19 -0800

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The remains of the Dublin Bread Company at 6-7 Lower Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street) after the Easter Rising in 1916.

Date: Definitely May 1916, if not the very end of April

NLI Ref.: KE 115

Black Church

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:20:14 -0800

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Gentlemen at the Black Church Hotel in Kildare. We're fairly sure they were heading to or from a race meeting at Punchestown (see Very Grand Stands and Roulette Wheel?)...

I'm tagging for Dandy, because if that isn't what that chap (complete with furled umbrella and nonchalant lean) is, then I'll eat the nearest stovepipe hat!

Plus, is that a Landau anyone? Thinking it's time we learnt to tell our Landaus from our Broughams...

Date: Circa 1868

NLI Ref.: STP_1105

Queen Victoria "visits" Library Towers

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:32:36 -0800

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It's a while since we saw a photo featuring our lovely building here in Dublin, even though we're just playing a supporting role to the star of this one - a statue of Queen Victoria. Uploading this because gerry.heaney has some queries about the statue...

Date: After 15 February 1908 (when statue was unveiled)

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_09648

Presenting Davy Stephens, late of Kingstown

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:34:29 -0800

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Really unusual for us to find a named person in our Lawrence Collection photographs, but here is Mr Davy Stephens. A really cursory Google search reveals that he was a very famous news seller around Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire). Read the comments below for tons (you all recognise that technical term) of information about this colourful Dublin character.

Date: July 1905

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_08992

Weir on the River Dodder below Orwell Bridge

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:58:35 -0800

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This snowy and icy scene from Rathgar in Dublin was also requested by Niall McAuley as he thinks he used to play around this area as a child.

Wondered if perhaps we'd be able to date this photo pretty accurately through accounts of harsh wintry weather between 1860 and 1883, and from the comments below, it looks relatively convincing that this snowy scene may have been captured circa January 1881.

Was delighted to see Rathgar Sawmills really clearly on the buildings in the background...

Date: Circa January 1881? (but almost certainly between 1878 and 1883 based on building evidence)

NLI Ref.: STP_1086

Railway Footbridge at Churchtown, Dublin

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:58:35 -0800

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One of our Flickr regulars, Niall McAuley, requested this photo from our O'Dea Collection. He thought from our catalogue description that it might be beside his old primary school in Dublin, but there was no digitised image for him to check.

Always delighted to take requests!

Date: Wednesday, 21 January 1959 (long before Niall was born!)

NLI Ref.: ODEA 8/27

Striding along Sackville Street

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 02:12:50 -0800

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Lovely candid shot of a woman passing a newsagents on Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street), Dublin. This is from our Clarke Collection, most of which were taken between 1897 and 1904. Is there anything in this photo to help us narrow that date down? The headlines on the news posters are not very clear unfortunately...

Cathal ua Broin at no. 35 translates as Charles Byrne (thanks swordscookie & ccferrie).

Date: Circa 1902 (but definitely between 1897-1904)

NLI Ref.: CLAR2

The Little Engine That Could...

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:25:06 -0800

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Had never spotted an engine with a tram before in any of our photos (had there been a breakdown?), so thought you might be interested in this one. We thought it may have been taken near Terenure College in Dublin, and we weren't too far out. Thanks to Niall McAuley for "finding" this location on Templeogue Road in Dublin...

Was intrigued to see First and Third Class on the side of the tram too!

Locomotive maker is T. Green & Son Ltd., Leeds & London, Makers 1906, No. 367...

Date: Circa 1910

NLI Ref.: EAS_2040

79 Grafton Street...

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:05:25 -0800

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... was the Dublin School of Photography and Studio of Frederick Holland Mares.This gives us a much narrower dating window for this one than 1860-1883, as Mares moved to 118 Grafton Street in 1875.

The businesses that are clear are:
74 J. Goggin (Queens Carver?)
76 Nolan
79 Cartley? (and Dublin School of Photography / F.H. Mares)
81 To Let?

Date: 1864-1875

NLI Ref.: STP_1978

Linenhall Barracks, Dublin

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:13:02 -0800

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Men surveying the wreckage of Linenhall Barracks in the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Dublin.

We asked where was Linenhall Barracks, and what happened here during the Easter Rising? See below for the answers we received...

Date: May 1916?

NLI Ref.: KE 108