February 10, 1967.
From the National Library of Ireland:
Mallow North Junction, Co. Cork .This includes some random birds perching on the telegraph pole, and I think one in the bare branches of a tree. Oddly enough, it’s very rare to spot birds in our photos.
Plopped this one down on the train station in Mallow pro tem, so if anyone knows exact co-ordinates for Mallow North Junction, you know what to do!
The good old days.
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This is the procession for James MacNeill, newly sworn in Governor General of the Irish Free State. Our catalogue had this as Westmoreland Street, Dublin. I’d be happier that this is actually the head of the procession on O’Connell Street, having just passed over O’Connell Bridge. Would you agree?
In typical fashion (if you’ll pardon the pun), the Irish Independent writer dismisses Mr. MacNeill’s attire with two words: “morning dress”, but we are treated to great detail on Mrs. MacNeill, who “wore a clipped lamb coat trimmed with fox fur and a brown felt hat to match the fur. Her dress was also brown, trimmed at the neck with soft yellow, and she wore shooes and stockings to match the dress.”
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January 26, 1970.
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A mirror image of this image up the hill from the early 1900s
Can you identify the makes of all the visible veh-icles?
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“OK. Who has the ‘L’ plates?”
January 25, 1914.
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This photo was taken on the same day as a studio portrait of John Redmond, M.P. so it is safe to assume that this is Redmond’s wife Ada (with the bouquet), née Beesley from Warwickshire. Redmond married her in 1899. His first wife, Irish-Australian Johanna Dalton had died in 1889.Think you’ll all agree that this is one of the finest arrays of early 20th century ladies’ millinery in our collections…
January 23, 1964.
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A view from across the River Liffey in Dublin of Liberty Hall under construction. Until recently, it was the tallest building in Ireland.
Bustling Joycean elegance and not an exposed ankle in sight.
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According to our catalogue, this was the Irish Republican Party (Sinn Féin) photographed on Monday, 10 July 1922 presumably in Dublin. However, as Cathal Brugha is present in this photo, and he died on Friday, 7 July 1922 then we need help to ascertain the correct date for this photo.
Some of the figures are readily identifiable, most obviously Eamon de Valera captured smiling. Think that may be Margaret Pearse, mother of Patrick Pearse, partially obscured by the newsreel camera, but would like to identify other people.
Taken on January 5, 1915 on the quays in Waterford City.
From The National Library of Ireland:
Came across this while searching for a photo taken on 5 January, and got very excited when I spotted the poster in the window of no. 127, the offices of L. & N.W. Midland and L. & Y. Railways. It’s a WWI recruiting poster that we also have in our Ephemera Collections here at the National Library.
It’s amazing to think of the young men who may have passed this shop window, looked at this poster with excitement or fear, or even disdain. And it’s amazing that we still have the photo and we still have the poster…
