Luke Brennan writes:
Was just looking at the online pictorial archives and saw this beauty. It even has Dalkey’s ill-fated atmospheric railway marked, which is a story in itself.
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Maria Ryan writes:
As an avid reader of Broadsheet, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you a very happy sixth birthday. We here in the National Library of Ireland have archived your website since 2011 and we thought on this occasion you or your readers might like to take a trip down memory lane.
Mmmf.
Earlier: Now We Are Six
Customers line up at the first McDonald’s hamburger stand at San Bernardino, California in 1948.
Eh, how far they’ve come.
Composites (each of which was painstaking assembled over three months like a reverse jigsaw puzzle) drawn from snippets of up to 70 photographs found in the US Library of Congress Archives by artist Jim Kazanjian. Sez he:
My current series is inspired by the classic horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood and similar authors. I am intrigued with the narrative archetypes these writers utilize to transform the commonplace into something sinister and foreboding. In my work, I prefer to use these devices as a means to generate entry points for the viewer. I’m interested in occupying a space where the mundane intersects the strange, and the familiar becomes alien. In a sense, I am attempting to render the sublime.
More here
Dev keeping Ireland sour, priest-ridden and isolationist safe from the Nazi menace in a British Pathé newsreel from 1940.
(H/T: Mark Donaghy)
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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An 11 year-old Warwick Davis with Carrie Fisher on the set on Return Of The Jedi.
One of many photos from the sets of Star Wars tweeted last night by Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew.
See them all here.
Bordered by Aughrim Street, Prussia Street and the North Circular Road, the Dublin cattle market was opened by the Rt. Hon. J.P. Vereher, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1863. It was one of the biggest in Britain or Ireland. It operated every Thursday and before the break of dawn, cattle would arrive in by road from all parts of Ireland, primarily coming from Celbridge, Chapelizod, Dunshaughlin and Ashbourne. Some grazed overnight in fields along the Cabra Road. Many farmers indulged in the spit and shake excitement of selling the poor auld beasties amid the confines of the City Arms Hotel in Prussia Street and Hanlon’s Pub.
The poo-trails radiating out from the place were said to be legendary.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
Simon Pegg (18) in 1988.