Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised photo taken on June 16 1954, the first Bloomsday, featuring poets Patrick Kavanagh & Anthony Cronin at the church – and Goggin’s pub – in Monkstown [County Dublin] with the carriage in which they’d been traveling about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
Previously: Rob Cross on broadsheet
Rob Cross writes:
My restored August 27, 1922 photo featuring Seán Collins (centre) beside the coffin of his brother, Michael Collins in Dublin’s City Hall where he lay in state for three days following his death at Béal na mBláth in Cork on August 22.
Top pic: Getty
Eamon de Valera after winning the East Clare by-election for Sinn Féin held on July 10, 1917
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised July 11, 1917 photo of Éamon de Valera aka The Long Fellow in full flight electioneering wearing his Volunteers uniform on the steps of Ennis Court House, County Clare….
‘England has her answer’: landslide win for de Valera (century Ireland, RTÉ)
Top pic: National Library of ireland
No change there then.
Rob Cross writes:
My restored and colourised mid-1920s photo featuring a silent and empty Dáil Chamber in Leinster House, Kildare Street in Dublin City.
The Dáil Chamber was once the RDS 700 seater Lecture Theatre which was bought outright from the RDS in 1924.
Upoate:
— Aaron McAllorum 🏳️🌈 (@AaronMcAllorum) March 5, 2020
Ye olde vote counting machine gathering dust in Leinster House.
‘sup?
Rob Cross writes:
No need for brown bins with these guys around! My restored and colourised 1900 photo featuring pig herding on Friar Street in Youghal, County Cork.
Oink.
Top pic: Wikipedia
Meanwhile…
Bringing the lost history of Ireland to life!
My restored and colourised 1916 photo featuring road works being undertaken on O’Connell Bridge in Dublin with the statue is of William Smith O’Brien in the background.
Google View🧐https://t.co/Ivt9KDJBfI#Dublin #Ireland #DeOldify pic.twitter.com/LGR7aw2QnA— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) March 3, 2020
My colourised footage of a Pathé newsreel from March 1922, during the Irish War of Independence showing invading forces, occupy houses, The Glenworth Hotel and the Shannon Rowing Club and marching through the streets of Limerick City armed. #Limerick #Ireland #Dublin #History pic.twitter.com/MeyvQOSGOW
— Rob Cross (@RobCross247) January 30, 2020
In fairness.
Cork has 402 adults #homeless whilst there’s enough residential land available to potentially build 25,995 dwellings plus on Cork Vacant Site Register, 18 sites with a valuation of €21m and three belong to #Cork City Council at €8.35m.
Yet we wonder why there’s a #HousingCrisis pic.twitter.com/C9IQeaQ1cX— Rob Cross 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 (@RobCross247) June 16, 2019
Previously: Derelict Dublin
10,378 #Homeless and a National Emergency Housing Crisis.
My graphic shows the vast amount of dereliction from Clanbrassil St. down to the Liffey and we wonder why there’s a #HousingCrisis in #Dublin whilst the biggest land hoarder is @LeoVaradkar own government. #Airbnb #Ireland pic.twitter.com/CaJLwv8Jyh— Rob Cross 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 (@RobCross247) June 10, 2019
Meanwhile…
You and your appalling Minister have betrayed the people of Ireland in so many ways, not least by facilitating everyone who is profiting hugely from the housing emergency, which is why you lot and your appalling Minister have so abjectly failed to deal with it. Shame on you!
— Frank McDonald (@frankmcdonald60) June 10, 2019
Yikes.
Thanks Lorcan
UPDATE:
On the front page of today’s Irish Mirror…
Austin Kavanagh tweetz:
What have we become as a nation, a mother and her 3 children eating a meal from a soup kitchen in the street… this is beyond sad.
10,305 homeless and thousands of our citizens can no longer afford to live in #Dublin. This graphic shows 7 Acres (2.83 Hectares) of derelict sites all along Thomas and James Street which is hidden behind derelict facades and yet we wonder why there’s a National #HousingCrisis. pic.twitter.com/Ijoegb2IeQ
— Rob Cross 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 (@RobCross247) May 27, 2019
