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

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

Think there might be a sale on in that shop...

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 03:59:47 -0700

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... at the Diamond in Derry! But the reason I picked this one was for the excellent capture of a lamplighter in his natural environment, complete with carty ladder or laddery cart. Could he be doing maintenance work?

Date: Circa 1907? (definitely after 1906)

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_02895

Countynstables!

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 02:11:31 -0800

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Found a typo in the title of this one! It reads: Steep street with Countynstables to centre of town with green land etc near sea. However, still think that Countynstables would have made a good name for a county's police force...

Thanks to Vab2009 who recognised this as Downpatrick, Co. Down.

Date: 1876-1882

NLI Ref.: STP_2228

St. Nicholas' Church, Galway, 1990

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:17:29 -0700

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Taken by photographer, B. Lawlor.

We've seen the front of St. Nicholas' Church before with the Egg and Fowl Market and the back view in one of our O'Dea photographs from 1964...

You can compare this view of St. Nicholas' Church with its companion photo taken approximately 100 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: Saturday, 3 November 1990 at 12:25 (weather conditions - fine)

NLI Ref.: LPP_46/1

Trinity College Dublin, late 19th century

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

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Very bustling scene at College Green in Dublin (at 13:16 o' the clock?). There are surely clues in this streetscape that can help us narrow down the date...

This photo was taken probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin.

You can compare this view of Trinity College with its companion photo taken approximately 90 years later 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: Circa 1900 (but willing to be persuaded otherwise)

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_00734

Street corner

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:21:48 -0700

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And here's no. 12 of our "unknown location" Fergus O'Connor photos!

Had hoped that there'd be at least some pretence of difficulty locating this one, but it was not to be... Using the shop owned by Deasy's, a census search, and Google Street View, Niall McAuley tracked this street corner down to Dillon's Cross on the Ballyhooley Road in Cork.

Meanwhile, whatsthatpicture overlaid this photo on Street View on his Historypin channel to great effect - as he says, "use the fader bar at the bottom"!

And thanks to Mogey for finding us this location on the OSI historic maps.

Date: 1910?? (but definitely between 1900 and 1920)

NLI Ref.: OCO 377

Military Barracks at 11.07 a.m., but where? Garda Headquarters in the Phoenix Park, that's where!

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:10:47 -0700

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Apologies for late posting this morning!

Today's photo was our 9th "unknown location" Fergus O'Connor photograph. Until today, 7 had been located. Had a feeling that this one, taken between 1900 and 1920, would be despatched with relative ease, but was super impressed with martindevlin who solved this mystery with impressive speed - it's now Garda Headquarters in the Phoenix Park, Dublin!

Now, our record for "unknown location" Fergus O'Connor photos is 8 out of 9 solved. HOWEVER, it'd be great to get a date for this one too...

Date: 1920?

NLI Ref.: OCO 64

Barney and Beany

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 01:21:13 -0700

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Prize for first person who got why I called this one Barney and Beany (wholly imaginary and virtual prize, but prestigious nonetheless) goes to swordscookie! See first comment below...

These two young entrepreneurs had set out their "stall" in front of St. Catherine's Church on Thomas Street in Dublin. Said this morning that it would make an old library very happy if these girls could be identified, and we've done it! Thanks to the sister of one of them, we now know these are Elizabeth or Lily Collins on the left, and her friend Angela Arnold on the right...

Date: Summer 1969

NLI Ref.: WIL 52[5]

PLUS THIS JUST IN! I found four small but priceless volumes of the Irish Motor Directory and Motorists' Annual for 1907; 1912-13; 1914-15; 1915-16 in the bowels of Library Towers. These give car and bicycle (motorbike?) registration numbers for the whole of Ireland and owner names and addresses. If any of you have a bit of time on your hands, feel free to seek out our photos with cars where the reg numbers are clearly visible, let me know about them, and I'll happily check the Directory to see if we can Name That Driver (or at least owner)!

Market Square, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, late 19th century

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:03:32 -0700

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This photo was taken in the late 19th century, probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin. It features a laughing, or at least smiling, policeman!

Compare this view of Bagenalstown with its companion photo taken by photographer Padraig J. Laffan (approximately 100 years later) 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: 1900?

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_10417

Market Square, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, 1991

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:55:34 -0700

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Taken by photographer, Padraig J. Laffan, who noted: "Catholic Church is on left where tress are, building in distance (Clerys) now gone."

You can compare this view of Bagenalstown with its companion photo (taken approximately 100 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.

The photographer recorded conditions as cloudy, but bright.

Date: Thursday, 16 May 1991 at 16:05

NLI Ref.: LPP_77/21A

Took 10 months to solve! Sandymount Castle, Dublin.

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:10:12 -0700

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You'd all thwarted my previous attempts at providing a difficult challenge from our "unknown location" Fergus O'Connor Collection images, nonchalantly despatching some of them in as little as 30 minutes. Well not this one, Flickroonies! I had threatened to eat the original glass plate negative if this one was solved quickly, but as it took us 10 months, don't think I have to make good on that offer.

All we had on this one was "Large house, with a clock tower and crenellated rooftop, in an unknown location", and the clock told us it was taken around 11:45. Though the time didn't help much, the clock tower certainly did. Almost 10 months to the day from its original posting, zetetic2006 said:

"I recognised it immediately! It's Sandymount Castle on Sandymount Green in Dublin, the crenellated clock-tower is a giveaway. The rear of the castle backs onto the southern side of the Green where you can still see the clock tower, check out Google Maps. The view in this photo is no more, Castle Park was built in these grounds, sometime in the 50's or 60's I think."

Date: 1900-1920

NLI Ref.: OCO 381

People's Garden, Phoenix Park

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:42:50 -0800

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Posted this photo as a challenge, hoping that the topography and buildings in the distance would help, because originally we had no location information whatsoever.

It took under 3 hours for the location of this photo to be identified. It's the People's Garden at the Phoenix Park in Dublin.

This was the third of our hitherto "unknown location" Fergus O'Connor Collection photos posted here and solved. We have about 80 to go...

Date: Circa 1900

NLI Ref.: OCO 224

Telephone Boxes

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:04:18 -0800

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Some of the first telephone boxes to grace Dublin's streets. Installation was in preparation for the thousands of people who descended on the capital from all over Ireland, and from all over the world, for the 31st International Eucharistic Congress in June 1932.

Would love to hear from anyone with more information on telephone boxes in Ireland. According to the excellent Come Here To Me! blog, Dublin's first telephone kiosk appeared in May 1925.

Thanks very much to woodworker_34 who worked out that these boxes were being installed outside the old Ballast House on O'Connell Bridge. You can actually see them in this 1932 British Pathé newsreel footage: A Million People Kneel in Prayer, at 2:00 to 2:03 mark.

Date: Spring 1932

NLI Ref.: IND_H_1860

Kissing the Blarney Stone

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:34:32 -0800

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A small group of tourists seeking the alleged eloquence that comes from kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle in Co. Cork.

Date: Circa 1897

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_04830

St. Nicholas' Church, Galway, 1890(?)

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:17:29 -0700

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This photo was taken probably by Robert French, chief photographer of William Lawrence Photographic Studios of Dublin.

We've seen the front of St. Nicholas' Church before with the Egg and Fowl Market and the back view in one of our O'Dea photographs from 1964...

You can compare this view of St. Nicholas' Church with its companion photo taken approximately 100 years later 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: 1890??

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_00784

April 19, 1964

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:08:26 -0700

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St. Nicholas' Church in Galway City, pictured at 5.37pm or 17:37. Originally thought that W. Mullins was a sweet shop, because the little boy was so glued to the window...

However, yellow book tells us Mullins was a butchers shop at this time, and says "A look at Google maps shows that the building is intact but painted a startling lime green - and home to a creperie called Zatsuma. A creperie in Galway City. Who'd have guessed that in 1964?"

Thanks to blackpoolbeach for providing us with a Bird's Eye View of this scene, and we're indebted to mcginley2012 for a fantastic historical account of this street corner from Kenny's Old Galway. Apparently in 1894, the lease on the corner shop (locally known as the Thimble Castle) was sold "to the Mullins family who also had it as a butcher shop, until 1995".

Date: Sunday, 19 April 1964

NLI Ref.: ODEA 38/77

Caution, Cat Crossing!

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:45:36 -0700

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This cat looks like master of all he surveys as he pads across Ely Place, Dublin. This has the feel of a Sunday morning photo about it, doesn't it?

Date: 1966

NLI Ref.: WIL 19[2]