Tag Archives: Vintage Dublin

1962.

Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2.

Gaspers and ‘fancy goods’.

Great times.

Lollipop Lady, Dublin 1988.

David Jazay writes:

From Dublin Before The Tiger (1982-1992), my long-term, high-res series about the inner city in the years leading up to the Celtic Tiger. For more images follow, RT and visit my website

Name that thoroughfare, anyone?

1985.

In the shadow of the Gasworks, Dublin 4.

Name those jammers (with exact year), anyone?

Also: Up the Dubs.

Syd Shelton?

Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin

Arf.

Patsy McGyver writes:

The Ha’penny Bridge, Dublin. Merchants Arch, Wellington Quay in the background. 1880s…

…I hate the advertisements.

Spratt’s?

Meanwhile...

Vienna?

NO.

Dublin Civic Trust write:

A fleeting, rare capture of Arnott’s exotic silhouette with its Eastern-inspired central tower and terminating pavilions prior to decapitation in the late 1940s – the rationale at the time declaring the ornaments as serving “no useful purpose.” Other than civitas, heaven forbid.

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Late 1960s.

Westmoreland Street, Dublin 2

Another newly-unearthed image by American photojournalist Harrison Forman.

Name those jammers (left to right), anyone?

Pic by Harrison Forman via University of Wisconsin

Previously: Gone For A Burton

Grand Jurys

Vintage Green Day

Photographer and filmmaker David Jazay tweetz:

TJ Downing’s shop on Benburb Street, 1992, #Dublin from my 10 year series #DublinBeforetheTiger Reflect for a moment on what we have lost.

Vintage Photographs of Dublin’s Inner City (Slate magazine, January 2016)

Previously: David Jazay on Broadsheet



Further to Monday’s filter-free tour of Dublin in the 1970s and yesterday’s romp through the 1980s…

Behold: Dublin in the 1990s in colour.

‘Mom’ jeans, broken dreams and foam “cut to size”.

Good times.

From top: Halston Street; Blackrock Dart station; GPO Arcade; Nassau Street; Smithfield Fruit Market; Fitzwilliam Place; Whitworth Road; O’Connell Street Bridge and Abbey Street; The ‘Lady of Mann’ on the Liffey and College Green.

Pics via Dublin City Library archive and Geograph.

Thanks Sibling Of Daedalus

A follow up to yesterday’s flare-flapping Kodachromed stroll through the 1970s

Dublin in the 1980s in color.

Bad coffee.

Good times.

From top: Baggot Street, Henry Street; Moore Street, Rathmines; Ranelagh; O’Connell Street; Dorset Street; Grafton Street and an aerial view looking down Grafton Street from the Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre.

All pics via Dublin City Public Libraries archive.

Thanks Sibling Of Daedalus