Bloomsday, Leinster, Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
Poets Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin at the church in Monkstown with the carriage in which they'd been proceeding about Dublin in the footsteps of Leopold Bloom, the main protagonist in Ulysses - 50 years ... More
70 Patrick Street, Cork - Victorian era public domain image
These are the premises of the legendary Guy's of Cork - photographers, stationers, and publishers of Guy's Cork Almanacs and Directories. At no. 69 to the left is Allen, a drapers perhaps as a sign in the windo... More
Little York Street Area: Little Henry Street looking towards Henry Str...
Creator: Alexander R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation.Date: 23rd April 1912.Description: Little York Street Area: Little Henry Street looking towards Henry Street No.s 20 to 29 on plan. Streets in photo: Little Yo... More
B.C.A. 1911 No.s 9, 11 and 12 on plan
Creator: Alexander R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation..Date: 15th October 1914..Description: B.C.A. 1911 No.s 9, 11 and 12 on plan. Streets in photo: Queen Street, Chapel Lane. Premises in photo: Irish Whisky Co.... More
Boundary Street Area: Between Louden Street and Upper Cargill Street
Creator: Alexander R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation..Date: 30th May 1912..Description: Boundary Street Area: Between Louden Street and Upper Cargill Street across No.s 125 & 126. Streets in photo: Dover Street, ... More
A view of Donaghadee from Fort. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: A view of Donaghadee from Fort..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~057
[Royal Avenue, Belfast. County Antrim, Ireland]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12119". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More
... between N[ew]t[own]M[oun]tkennedy and Roundwood...
Feeling particularly fiendish today! This image is from a lantern slide in our Joshua H. Hargrave collection...If you like, you can take it as an interesting image in and of itself, but if you're up for a chall... More
[Glenoe Village. County Antrim, Ireland] view, photochrome print postc...
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905, where the title is misspelled as "Glencoe." Print no. "12112". More information about the... More
[The Honeycombs, Giant's Causeway. County Antrim, Ireland]
Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12071". More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available a... More
Village of Glenoe, Ireland - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpa...
Stereo by William H. Rau, Phila., Pa., copyrighted by Griffith & Griffith, Phila. Pa. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Street scenes; Photog. Index; Northern I... More
Robert French - Penny Farthing - Victorian era public domain image
Not sure if we've seen St. Stephen's Green in Dublin from this angle before. There isn't the usual clarity of a Lawrence Collection photograph, but when I spotted the Penny Farthing, this one was irresistible..... More
Exemption Licence at the Anchor Hotel in Moville, Co. Donegal
Don't think we've come across one of these newfangled exemption licences before, have we?..Photographer: Almost certainly Robert French of Lawrence Photographic Studios ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Collection/vtls... More
John Bull: Are these my Islands or yours?
John Bull is seen standing on an outline map of the British Isles (he stands squarely between London and the Midlands), facing a "Tory peer"-type who is dressed in hunting clothes, ermine-trimmed robes, and a m... More
Train at Abbeyleix - Steam locomotive, Public domain image
This is Abbeyleix Train Station, Co. Laois. The train is pulled by Engine No. 60...There's a fine array of advertising signs and posters on the gable wall, and dotted about the station, including what looks lik... More
August 1, 1915, Leinster, Ireland
Funeral procession of Fenian Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa. Trams drew to a halt and crowds lined the streets as the coffin passed. O'Rossa had died on Staten Island on 29 June 1915, but his body was brought back to... More
Gardiner Street Area: Abbey Street from North King Street towards Pete...
Creator: Alexander R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation..Date: 26th April 1912..Description: Gardiner Street Area: Abbey Street from North King Street towards Peter's Hill No.s 64, 64A, 63, 62 & 61 on plan Whitewash... More
A waterfall in Glenariffe. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: A waterfall in Glenariffe..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~038
The Britannic, view from deck - Public domain ocean liner image
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1905..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: The Britannic , view from deck ..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~037
Children spinning, County Donegal
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: 1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Children spinning and reeling wool, Highlands, County Donegal..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~025
Glencolumbkill, County Donegal. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: 1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: A cabin in Glencolumbkill, County Donegal..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~024
High Street, Belfast. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: High Street, Belfast..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~006
Donegall Place, Belfast. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Donegall Place, Belfast..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~004
The Britannic, view from deck - Public domain ocean liner image
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1905..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: The Britannic , view from deck ..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~037
The Wishing Chair. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: The Wishing Chair, Giant's Causeway..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~051
Belfast - Giants Well. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Giants Well..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~047
Village, nr. Castlewellan. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: 1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Castlewellan, County Down..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~014
Donaghadee Light House and Harbour
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: 1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Donaghadee Light House, County Down ..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~019
The Stookans, Giants Causeway. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: The Stookans, Giants Causeway..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~050
Barbican Bridge, Glenarm Castle
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Barbican Bridge, Glenarm Castle..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~028
At the Stookans, Giants Causeway
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: At the Stookans, Giants causeway..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~040
Workshop, Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1910..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: A workshop , Queens Island , Harland and Wolff Shipyard, Belfast..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~042
Newcastle, County Down. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: 1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: The Promenade, Newcastle, County Down..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~012
Cave Hill & Belfast Castle. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Cave Hill & Belfast Castle..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~013
Botanical photograph - Public domain botanical illustration
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Botanical photograph..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~070
Stream in Glenarm Glen. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Stream in Glenarm Glen ..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~027
Carrickfergus Castle. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Carrickfergus Castle..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~014
View of Antrim Castle from the river
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: View of Antrim Castle from the river..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~017
The Suevic, Liverpool. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1907..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: The Suevic , Liverpool..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~041
Village, nr. Castlewellan. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: 1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Castlewellan, County Down..PRONI Ref: D1403_2~014
The Rope Bridge, Carrick-a-rede
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1914..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: The Rope Bridge, Carrick-a-rede, County Antrim Coast...PRONI Ref: D1403_2~067
Lord Antrims Parlour. Northern Ireland
Creator: R. Welch (Photographer)..Date: c.1888..Original Format: Photographic Print..Description: Lord Antrims Parlour, Giants Causeway..PRONI Ref: D1403_1~045
B.C.A. 1911 No.s 38 to 42 on plan
Creator: Alexander R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation..Date: 8th January 1915..Description: B.C.A. 1911 No.s 38 to 42 on plan. Streets in photo: Mill Street, King Street. Premises in photo: Rogan's Pub...PRONI Re... More
An appeal to you / M'Caw, Stevenson & Orr, Ltd., Dublin & Belfast.
Poster showing a youthful soldier holding a rifle with bayonet. Caption: Give us a hand old man! P. 209/7500.
Chetwynd Viaduct and the Mystery Car!!
Chetwynd Viaduct lifting train, Chetwynd, Co. Cork...I will leave it to the reader to keep themselves abreast of the "Mystery Car" controversy - see comments below. ..This a viaduct on the Cork, Bandon and Sou... More
Named director of Railroad Unemployment Insurance. Washington, D.C., O...
A man in a suit sitting at a desk with a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
James Valentine - Grafton Street
Grafton Street in Dublin, long before pedestrianisation was even a twinkle in Dublin Corporation's eye. Check out the tags for the car registrations that are clear enough to read - the only one I'm unsure of is... More
A number of U.S. troops have already been landed in Northern Ireland
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US Embassy in Belfast - Consulate Office Building - 1960
The original finding aid described this item as: Property Number: S 98539 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings
US Embassy in Belfast - Consulate Office Building - 1960
The original finding aid described this item as: Property Number: S 98539 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings
Brand Spanking New Bus, Leinster, Ireland
A bright shiny new No. 8 bus pictured on O'Connell Street, Dublin. It looks as if these men can't wait to get on board and try it out for size...Thanks to A. P. Luckwill ( apl-irl/ ) for letting us know that t... More
Belfast - Mid-Level Position Residence - 1979
The original finding aid described this item as: Property Number: X33035 Photographs Related to Embassies, Consulates, and Other Overseas Buildings
A right side view of a C-23A Sherpa aircraft during presentation cerem...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Belfast Harbor Airport Country: Ireland (IRL) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Fernando Serna Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser... More
Charles H. Price II, US ambassador to the Court of St. James, assists ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Belfast Harbor Airport Country: Ireland (IRL) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Fernando Serna Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser... More
Workers at the Short Brothers Belfast aerospace complex, producers of ...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Base: Belfast Harbor Airport Country: Ireland (IRL) Scene Camera Operator: SSGT Fernando Serna Release Status: Released to Public Combined Military Ser... More
A seagull standing on a railing next to a body of water. Seagull bird ...
A white bird standing on a ledge near a river / A white bird standing on a ledge near a body of water / Public domain stock photo of a ship.
A man standing on a rocky beach next to a body of water. Giant's cause...
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A road lined with lots of tombstones next to a cemetery. Cemetery belf...
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A small stone building with a green roof. Quiet valley northern irelan...
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Belfast city reflection building. A bridge over a body of water next t...
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A large pile of rocks sitting on top of a beach. Giant's causeway nort...
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A suspension bridge over a cliff overlooking a body of water. Carrick-...
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Ireland belfast museum building. A large white building with a lot of ...
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Sackville Street in the quiet, Dublin, Ireland
Morning Mary is taking a bit of a punt today by posting two images of the same scene from the wonderful Eblana "upsidey downsie" collection. Since they are the same scene yet with great differences of populati... More
Standing still for history Limerick, Ireland
Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and ... More
This is so busy I need a cup of Liptons tea!
This is a FIRST I stand to be corrected but this is the first image from the EBLANA Collection that we have posted here. A busy image full of people, traffic and movement to delight and thrill the viewer. In... More
Robert French - Picnicking at Lough Gill
Yet another visit to beautiful Lough Gill to end this week and a view to die for! Mr. French appears to have brought a few of his drinking partners to share the view with him on this occasion though the top ha... More
Bringing home the turf - A group of people standing next to a donkey
To end the week with a wee bit of colour we have a most charming photograph of a time long gone. The activity captured here was once ubiquitous - but now less common. The whole process of bringing home the tur... More
"Europe leaning to the right" is Antwerp
A Mason image for today with a scene apparently from the Continent of Europe around the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries! The scene is dominated by distinctive church buildings but the street is alive with ... More
Robert French - Camlin Falls, Longford, Co. Longford
These unusual water falls in County Longford are today's offering from the Lawrence Collection. Obviously part of a river management system and I imagine an adventure for kayakers if it still exists. I love t... More
In the long arms of the law!, Dublin, Ireland
In this lovely if damaged glass plate, from the Clarke Collection, a member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police appears to have at least one prisoner on their way to the station. In the background some onlookers... More
Éamonn Ceannt, full-length, facing front portrait, seated, holding pip...
Eamonn Ceannt sitting with a set of "uileann pipes" is today's offering. Eamonn Ceannt was of course one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising and apparently an exponent of that strange instrument the "el... More
Somewhere in the West - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph
I know this scene, it is like the Delphi Fishery but I do not think it is, T. C. Kingsmill Moore, would know precisely. It is definitely associated with a fishery in the West of Ireland. We have the scotch pine... More
NOT a "Gothic revival/restoration stone church, square castellated tow...
While this is NOT the exterior of a Gothic revival/restoration stone church it just may be the interior of just such a church. This appears to be one of a number of images of the same church in the archive. T... More
The blessings of Saint Patrick be upon you all!
This Mason lantern slide of St. Patrick curing a sick man is appropriate for the day that is in it! Patrick was a Welshman who as a boy was captured by Irish raiders and taken as a slave. He was put minding s... More
Robert French - Clonhugh, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
From the moving statue of King Billy to a big, a very big, house outside Mullingar in County Westmeath. This large building with extensions looks like yet another country house converted into a convent or scho... More
Small church with square battlemented tower in graveyard, showing grav...
With a catalogue heading such as that above, identifying this church should perhaps be a doddle(?) On the morning of the winter solstice, the true new year perhaps, we can look forward to longer days, brighter... More
Arthur Henri Poole - Grange Terrace (and its children) Waterford!
I haven't had the pleasure of putting up a Poole shot for some time and today I can put up a cracker! Grange Terrace with its children assembled outside the doors of the nearer houses on a wet day looks so wel... More
Robert French - St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin City, Co. Dublin
This amazing shot of St. Patricks Cathedral taken by Mr. French could probably never be repeated. Not at least short of knocking down buildings and recreating others! It creates a vision of a very open and spa... More
Robert French - Williamsgate Street, Galway City, Co. Galway
Having been to Graigue by brake and back last week we start this week in Galway looking at the makers of the beautiful Claddagh Ring on Williamsgate Street in Galway City...Almost single-handedly, Niall McAuley... More
D. O'Connor, Provincial Stores, 41 Barronstrand Street, shopfront : co...
From yesterdays people who might cast pearls to swine to todays people who might insure those Pearls? Mr. D. O'Connor of 41 Barronstrand Street was proud of his shop and decided to immortalise it by ensuring i... More
Robert French - Fridays child is loving and giving!
The fine shot of Town Hall Street, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh is surely "Fridays Child"? There is so much to see here including some crisp, clear posters, a Peeler, some ghosts and more people standing around ... More
Hat trick - Royal visitors in the Picture Gallery, Kilkenny Castle
A royal group in Kilkenny Castle, that beautiful castle in, arguably, Ireland's most beautiful city - but can we name this lot?..And indeed it seems we can. With thanks in particular to some our regular stalwar... More
Monument, James's Street, Dublin
One of those seemingly nameless and perhaps purposeless monuments that we pass daily - and due to traffic or location never get to identify! I have passed this many times over 50 years and could not tell you f... More
Robert French - Knocka Castle, Templemore, Co. Tipperary
Back to County Tipperary once more - but to the North Riding this time. Knocka Castle in ruins near Templemore looks to have been once a great house with a Norman tower nearby for refuge (perhaps in case the W... More
Robert French - Curraghmore, Portlaw, Co. Waterford
We may have moved to the Lawrence Collection today but we remain firmly in Poole territory of Waterford. This magnificent pile may not have survived the "Troubles" but if it has it would make a most interestin... More
"Turnwake, with figures at base of flagpole" - is Tynwald Hill, Isle o...
The Turnwake it says! As if that is enough in itself to describe and locate a circular mound with a flagpole in its centre. Well, I must admit that I never heard of it before nor did I ever see an image of it... More
Main Street, Midleton, Co. Cork
A new week and we start off with a photo from the lovely town of Midleton. I think something looks staged in this one, what do you think?..With thanks in particular today to the contributions of Niall McAuley (... More
Robert French - G.P.O. Belfast - Victorian era public domain image
On the Monday after Assembly Elections in Northern Ireland we go to Belfast and an image of an impressive and deserted (almost) General Post Office. One of the two figures standing on the kerb appears to be a ... More
Robert French - "Crawford's Burn Bridge & Waterfall, Bangor, Co. Down"...
...I know, I know. Someone in Library Towers was on the sauce last evening but it wasn't me :) Clearly this image is of the cathedral on the Rock of Cashel. How its label was transmogrified to become "Crawford'... More
Bird's Eye View, Lurgan, Co. Armagh
Before the days of helicopters and drones a church steeple or high hill provided a "birds eye view" as in this shot. Lurgan appears a well developed town with industry and institutions aplenty back when this s... More
Modern building, possibly an hotel with "Butler" shop attached (is Lis...
This morning we have a rather bleak looking building, apparently in the middle of nowhere, with a goodly supply of horse manure and a bowler hatted corner boy for local colour...And with thanks to today's contr... More
Robert French - Sea Park House, Malahide
On a bright if cold day in Dublin we have a shot taken on a bright summers(?) day in Malahide. I admit to not knowing if Seapark House still exists...The sad news is that the house no longer exists, It was dem... More
I didn't know O'Sullivan was in gaol(?)
The Spring-O'Sullivan bar is in Firies in Co. Kerry and typical of a pub in rural Ireland it could have two or more other businesses operating from under the one roof. In this case the Post Office is right nex... More
The Old Man of the Holy Well
If ever there was a photograph of a man taking his ease in beautiful surroundings this must be it. A holy well in Sligo from the Eason collection...Well done to B-59 ( /photos/66311327@N05/ ) for identifyin... More
Red Bay Arch, with man on bicycle
This morning we go up north to the Arch at Red Bay and a fine upright bicycle. ..With thanks to B-59 ( /photos/66311327@N05/ ) , swordscookie ( /photos/swordscookie/ ) and beachcomberaustralia ( /photos/beach... More
Square obelisk by footbridge with iron railing over wide stream, woods...
Today we change from the misery of a downtrodden people to a memorial to someone long dead. Drogheda is an historic and fascinating town and we really looked forward to finding out more about this obelisk...An... More
Mathias Magrath's house, Moyasta, Co.Clare after destruction by the Ba...
Following the recent related Tríd an Lionsa program ( http://www.tg4.ie/en/player/home/?pid=4636432704001&title=Tr%c3%add an Lionsa&series=Tr%c3%add an Lionsa ) , today's image shows the result of the type of b... More
Sharman & Neill brush gold ornaments & Antique models. Jeweller/Diamon...
Today we have the longest title this Mary has seen on a photo in the NLI's Commons stream. A fine establishment in central Belfast should make for good searching for those so inclined...And indeed there proved... More