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Champagne for everyone!

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 14 May 2013 05:28:41 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

This is the Coffee Room at the Antrim Arms Hotel allegedly in Portrush, Co. Antrim and we'd like to confirm that location.

I picked this one for the fascinating insight into late-19th century hotel dining. Some of the groups of four diners were going to be quaffing two bottles of champage - a bottle on the nearest table is Perrier-Jouët. Also love all the accoutrements waiting for use on that fantastic piece of furniture...

Date: Circa 1890??

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_01338

Pillar cross at Glencolmcille aka Glencolumbkille in Donegal

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 13 May 2013 02:45:24 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Very impressive carved stone, and we seem to have very few photographs of it. Any and all information would be most welcome…

Circa: 1900?

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_09167

Howth-on-Sea

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

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

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

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

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

Athboy Railway Station, Co. Meath

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:40:21 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Our regular roving railway reporter Flying Snail asked to see this one - he's nearing the end of his college work (a photographic project on the former railways in Co. Meath).

Love the Station Master checking his watch!

Date: Circa 1900?

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_08413

Uh oh!

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:00:52 -0700

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More maritime misadventure for you today - this time in the harbour at Arklow, Co. Wicklow.

Date: Circa October 1886

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_00416

Fisher Folk

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

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

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

Queen's Square, Fermoy, Co. Cork

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:55:09 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Grand vista of a rather grand square in Cork - Queen's Square in Fermoy. It's not often that we can make out almost every business in a photograph (although things go a little pear-shaped on the right-hand side of the square).

By my reckoning (l. to r.) we have:
Public Bakery; T. Mannix; Daniels; Quinlan; J. Punch & Co.; Tylers Ltd.; A.N. Other; D. Hayes; B. Greer?; T. Fox; O'Brien; W. Eager / National Hotel; Royal Hotel; Afew A.N.Others; R.B. Baker Bicycle Shop...

Date: Circa 1890s?

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_00062

Who fears to speak of '98 (or Consumption)

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:32:32 -0700

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Love this one for the way the boy in his lovely stripy geansaí has mimicked the stance of this 1798 commemorative statue in Wexford town.

The poster in the background may be useful for dating purposes. I can't read all of the poster, but the top bit says "Information for Consumptive People and for those who live with them". I think this may be to do with the nationwide campaign against TB in 1907/1908...

Date: Circa 1908?? (definitely after 6 August 1905 when this bronze Pikeman was unveiled)

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_09063

The Hell Fire Club

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

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

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

Bangor Castle II

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 01:43:45 -0700

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And here's the steamer Bangor Castle again at the docks in Belfast. Very different ornamentation around the wheel. And is that No. 5 or No. 3 Ferry lurking behind the Bangor Castle?

Date: Circa 1880??

NLI Ref.: L_NS_01801

The Palace - Twice Nightly at 7 & 9

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 02:01:52 -0700

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The marvellous Cirque and Grand Opera House in Belfast. There's no way a date for this one will defeat us - a poster above the Gallery entrance says "Palace Theatre. Chas Majiltons Co. The Trippers. Tho Hardeen". So when did that combination of performers show the theatre-going people of Belfast a good time??

Date: Circa 1909?? (post-1905, and no later than 1909)

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_08983

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

Moat at Donaghadee

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:51:53 -0700

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We had a Moat in Ballymena a couple of weeks back. Couldn't resist this one either. It made me think of the castle in Monty Python and the Holy Grail - "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries..."

There must be a story behind such an imposing edifice?

Date: Circa 1890s

NLI Ref.: L_CAB_05950

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

Bowling along in their motor

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:37:44 -0700

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We've seen this vehicle IM 181 at Leenane before, or at least its sister vehicle IM 180. It's supposed to be near Westport, Co. Mayo. Can any of you place this viaduct?

Can make out "Percy A. Ha..., Secretary" just behind the chap riding shotgun (who is, I'm fairly sure, wearing a silver Claddagh ring on the pinkie finger of his right hand).

What do these mean? To do with weight? Tyre pressure?
U.W. 2-13-0-0
F.A.W. 2-10-0-0
B.A.W. 4-0-0-0

Date: After 1906 (Commercial Car factory opened at Luton)

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_11182

Arcade, New Tipperary

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:22:58 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Following on from yesterday's photo of Dillon Street in New Tipperary, here's the Arcade near the same location. Couldn't decide between the two images we have digitised, and as it gives us an end to end view of the Arcade, I decided to upload both...

Date: Circa 1890? (definitely before 11 August 1892)

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_02572

Arcade, New Tipperary

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:22:58 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

"Success to New Tipperary; 'tis the glory of our land!"

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:51:38 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

I know that there's a story behind this rather innocuous looking street - Dillon Street - so I hope it will pique your interest. While it was within Tipperary town, this was very definitely New Tipperary!

Date: Circa 1890?

NLI Ref.: L_ROY_02573