Dev keeping Ireland sour, priest-ridden and isolationist safe from the Nazi menace in a British Pathé newsreel from 1940.
(H/T: Mark Donaghy)
Category Archives: History
Portobello, Dublin 8.
(Thanks Conor Horgan)
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From an exhibition of vintage LAPD forensic photographs curated by fototeka and currently showing at Paris Photo Fair in Hollywood.
From a recently released collection of British Pathé archives from 1950: the year George Bernard Shaw died, the year Gabriel Byrne was born, Mayo won the All Ireland and Frederick Boland became the first Irish ambassador to the UK.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
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A young Gwen Stefani collars Sting for an autograph in 1983.
John Lennon’s Rolleiflex self portrait, taken in the attic of his house at Kenwood, June 29, 1967.
A vintage clip, uploaded by Motorsport.ie, of a 22 year-old Ayrton Senna, two years prior to his Formula One debut, winning the Benson & Hedges EuroSport Leinster Trophy Race in 1982 at Mondello Park in Kildare.
Alex Eustace writes:
The future Formula One star is driving his FF2000 Van Diemen and he is still racing under the name of Ayrton Da Silva. The race finishes at about 15 minutes in the video and you can catch Ayrton in all his helmet-less glory doing a victory lap.
G’wan the Joey Greenan from Belfast, who (as Alex also points out) actually overtakes Senna early in the race and pushes him for most of it.
Alec Guinness, born 100 years ago today, writes to a friend as he begrudgingly prepares to shoot Star Wars.
Guinness once claimed it was his idea to have Obi Wan die in A New Hope so that he wouldn’t have to reprise the role.
Gardai ag damhsa Trom agus Eadrom 1983 Seactain na Gaeilge.
(Belated H/T: Kieran Murphy)
