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Fire Engine in St. Patrick's Day Parade
Fire Engine in St. Patrick's Day Parade
Fire Engine in St. Patrick's Day Parade 1962. This photograph shows the dressed up engine surmounted by friends of the firemen at Donnybrook Garage before the fire engine entered the parade.
By kind permission of Michael Corcoran
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Photograph of an Historic Breadvan
Photograph of an Historic Breadvan
Photograph of an historic Breadvan. This van was used for deliveries by the Dublin bakers, Johnston Mooney O'Brien and dates from 1953 although it is painted in 1963 livery. It was used up to 1981. It is an electric vehicle and is on show in the National Transport Museum, Howth, Co. Dublin.
By kind permission of Michael Corcoran
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Rathmines Fire Engine
Rathmines Fire Engine
Rathmines Fire Engine. This is a 1932 Greenmount.
By kind permission of Michael Corcoran
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Dún Laoghaire on Dublin Bay from the quarries
Dún Laoghaire on Dublin Bay from the quarries
Engraving of image by Joseph Clatyon Bentley after William Henry Bartlett. View from left to right shows Liffey South Wall, the harbour of Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire), Sandycove Martello tower Bullock Castle and Dalkey village , with view of Granite quarries on Killiney Hill in foreground.
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
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Dún Laoghaire East Pier (NLI v.)
Dún Laoghaire East Pier (NLI v.)
A view of the eastern part of the Harbour of Dun Laoghaire, from the East Pier. In view from left to right are: The bandstand, the Mariner’s Church (1837), The National Yacht Club, The Royal Marine Hotel, a paddle steamer, a screw-propeller stem ship at Carlisle Pier. St. Michael’s Church with scaffolding, the Town Hall (1880). In the foreground are two women, one with a bicycle. At the turn of the century a practice of cycling furiously down the West Pier, across the harbour, known as 'scorching' caused such annoyance it had to be prohibited.
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland
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Carlisle Pier
Carlisle Pier
A copy of a photogravure depicting the Carlisle Pier in Kingstown Harbour with its railway spur. In view from left to right: the Royal Navy guardship, Carlisle Pier with steam paddle mailboat berthed, the 1823 monument to George IV’s visit in 1821 which caused the renaming of the town.
With the permission of the Irish Archichitectural Archive
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Clapper Bridge, Louisburgh
Clapper Bridge, Louisburgh
This is a photograph of the clapper bridge at Burlehinch near Louisburgh, one of the oldest bridges in Mayo. It is built in a style common in Devon and Cornwall. It was built at a low point of the river to enable pedestrians to cross.
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Tralee & Dingle Railway: description of working and loads of trains
Tralee & Dingle Railway: description of working and loads of trains
Great Southern Railways: Appendix to the Working Time Time Table 1st March 1935 until further notice.description of working and loads of trains
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Delivery docket from Tralee & Dingle Railway
Delivery docket from Tralee & Dingle Railway
original Delivery docket from Tralee & Dingle Railway, 1891
acknowledgement to Kerry County Library/ Leabharlann Chontae Chiarraí
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Kingstown harbour
Kingstown harbour
A view of the harbour towards Carlisle Pier, with two passanger steamers decked out in regatta style.
Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland