Tag Archives: Vintage Ireland

The Dublin Beauties

 

This morning.

Anyone?

Good times.

High-flying junior minister publicly backs turf rebels (Extra.ie)

1967.

A nation under trembling fear.

No change there then.

Moate?

This morning.

Via The Victorian Commons:

…The idea was that each year Parliament would meet in Dublin for a session devoted entirely to Irish business. This had been suggested in June 1835 by the Leominster MP Thomas Bish, who moved to address the king on the subject, although his initiative attracted so little interest that the Commons was counted out before it could proceed further.

By mid-1848, however, Ireland had suffered an unprecedented famine and witnessed an abortive rising by the Young Ireland movement. In the wake of these events ways were sought to make Parliament more responsive to Ireland’s plight….

…The Society for the Promotion of Periodical Sittings of the Imperial Parliament in Dublin argued that holding an annual parliamentary session in Dublin would encourage the capital investment required to develop the country’s natural resources and stimulate trade, and might also coax the ‘wealthy and educated’ back to Dublin, which was then regarded as a ‘city of desolate palaces … without an aristocracy, and tenanted by struggling shopkeepers and half-famished artizans’.

No change there then.

Fight!

‘Rotatory Parliaments’: The 1848 campaign for parliamentary sessions in Ireland (The Victorian Commons)

This afternoon.

Illustrator and designer Niall McCormick writes:

Finished copies of my new book Grand Stuff: Label Art from Ireland are back from the printers. Delighted with how it has turned out. 416 pages with over 600 examples of label designs from circa 1890 to 1990s. Launching later this month. Pre-sales will go live shortly.

In fairness.

In fairness.

Bodyke evictions?

Meanwhile…

Ah here.

1969.

Galway city.

Somerset, England-born, holly-hatted storyteller Francis Kendall-Husband, the last wandering bard in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales, tells RTÉ’s ‘Newsbeat’ reporter Cathal O’Shannon about homelessness, his love for the west of Ireland and why it should be Christmas every day.

Via CR’s Video Vaults.

“Oh Pray For Me Dear Ireland, And All Thy Beggars Too” (RTE Archives)