(Thanks Niall Glynn)
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Atticus writes:
Spotted in Christchurch New Zealand.
Related: Defiant reg Plates Of Oz and Defiant Reg Plates Of New Zealand
More to follow
Thanks Garrett Rowe and Nick Sutton
From 1984, an ad for Tramp perfume.
She got too hungry for dinner at eight.
“Today’s kind of fragrance for today’s kind of girl. Tramp; free and friendly, bold and exciting.”
YOUR MA!
If you’re a mini PETROLHEAD.
John Swan and son Lionel arriving in their Ferrari at the RIAC (Royal Irish Automobile Club) National Classic Car Show 2014 today at the RDS Simmonscourt., Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Year and model anyone?
UPDATE: 308 (1979).
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
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[Stall holder Betty Creed (top) and William Allright (above) with the Dublin Discovery Gospel Choir]
Members of the Dublin Discovery Gospel Choir – ‘Ireland’s leading multi-cultural choir’ celebrated their 10th birthday with Mr Walter Allright from Donnybrook, Dublin on his 99th birthday on Moore Street in Dublin this morning.
Mmf.
The choir’s 10th anniversary concert ‘ Home takes place next month. Details here.
Fairly ‘amazing’, in fairness.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)
Angahard writes:
“Grand stretch in the evening. Walking in Griffeen Valley Park, Lucan [Dublin].”
Dame Street, Dublin this evening
Thanks Simon Judge
Raise a ticket stub to William Dargan.
Without him you’d be on the bus.
Sibling of Daedalus writes:
“Readers taking the train or DART home today might be interested to know that it is the birthday of William Dargan, who not only brought the railway to Ireland but was the only Irishman ever to have a statue erected to him in his own lifetime, displayed at the Irish Industrial Exhibition which took place on Leinster Lawn [Dublin] in 1853, and which he underwrote.
Queen Victoria attended the exhibition and was very taken with Dargan, whom she found ‘touchingly modest and simple’, going so far as to press his arm to show him that she had ‘the… intellect to understand and… heart to appreciate’ his work.
Dargan, an Irish patriot whose fortune declined in later years, invited the Queen to tea at his home in Mount Anville, but steadfastly refused to accept a knighthood. Meanwhile, the Queen’s husband, Prince Albert, remarked sniffily that the Irish public ‘looked like Italian beggars’. I am not sure what happened to his larger-than-life statue (shown above) but I think there is still a mural of the dashingly frockcoated Dargan up on the wall at Bray station?”
Anyone?
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