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Hell-Fire Club punchbowl
Hell-Fire Club punchbowl
Picture of the punch bowl belonging to the Hell-Fire Club. The club was situated on Mountpelier Hill. The bowl was used during the eighteenth century.
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Da Dearga's Hostel on fire
Da Dearga's Hostel on fire
Drawing shows hostel of Da Dearga on fire. It was attacked three times by Ingsel and his band of warriors.They were attacking Conaire.
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Members of the Hell-Fire Club
Members of the Hell-Fire Club
Painting showing the members of the Hell-Fire Club at one of their meetings. The members are in their club uniform and have the punch-bowl on the table in front of them. Meetings held in club on Mountpelier Hill
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Cléibhin Móna01
Cléibhin Móna01
Cover of 'Cléibhin Móna' showing title, author and publisher.
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The Railway Era
The Railway Era
<P> The coming of the railways coincided with the arrival of the telegraph, and marked the start of a new era. The country was changing, and quickly. Before then people could travel only as fast as a horse could carry them, now they could travel at nearly 100 miles an hour. </P> <P> The railways introduced mass transport, and fostered emigration and the move to the cities, the development of seaside resorts, and even a standard time zone across the country - all the trains kept 'Dublin time'. </P> <P> National markets developed, with national newspapers and brand-name products replacing small local ones. Whole empires were built on the back of railways. But with World War I interest switched to roads and motor cars, and many railway lines fell into disrepair and closed. </P>
Image: sketch of the Dublin-Kingstown railway, opened in 1834
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Mitchell's Screw-Pile Lighthouse
Mitchell's Screw-Pile Lighthouse
<P> Alexander Mitchell invented the screw-pile, a major improvement over the standard straight pile. With his son, he patented his cast iron screwpile design in the 1830s. By 1840 Mitchell combined his cast iron screwpile moorings with another pile construction technique and built the first screwpile lighthouse type at the mouth of the Wyre, an important harbor in Lancashire, England. Mitchell used 36-inch-diameter wooden timbers on whose bottoms were attached his cast iron screwpile devise. Completed in 1841, his structure was the first lighthouse to be built upon a screwpile foundation made entirely of iron. </P> <P> A protected, screw-pile lighthouse was typically a light-weight, wooden tower on iron stilts, the legs of which are tipped with cork-screw like flanges. These legs are turned into the soft ground of protected waters, such as bays and sounds. This new type of lighthouse was dependent upon the development of wrought-iron columns for the legs and cast-iron for the screw-like flanges. This technology permitted the construction of lighthouses on sites too soft to support the weight of a heavy tower. </P> <P> <EM> Text & Right Image: Courtesy of <A HREF="http://www.uscg.mil">USCG</A>. Left Image: 'Screw-Pile Lighthouse' from ''Sea Stories'', publ. 1910 by Century Co. N.Y. </EM> </P>
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Teach Chlub Tinte Ifrinn sa lá atá inniu ann
Teach Chlub Tinte Ifrinn sa lá atá inniu ann
Photograph shows the condition of the Hell-Fire club building as it is today.
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The Drumm Battery Train
The Drumm Battery Train
Drumm battery trains were used on the Dublin-Bray route until 1949, when the batteries had reached the end of their life and cheap diesel had become available.
© Iarnród Éireann
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Ardnacrusha
Ardnacrusha
<P> This great project was the vision of Irish engineer Tommy McLaughlin, and construction was by German company, Siemens. The project's success meant it was a model for other large-scale hydro schemes and persuaded other small developing countries to try something similar. </P> <P> The project made Siemens, and paved the way for the rural electrification scheme. In 2002, Ardnacrusha (pictured above) won two major international honours, ranking it alongside the Eiffel Tower, the space shuttle and the Japanese bullet train. </P>
Image: courtesy of Brendan Delany
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Peter Rice
Peter Rice
<P> Rice (1935-92) helped architects to realise their designs, found elegant solutions to structural problems, and pioneered the use of many new materials including cast-steel, glass and fabric. </P> <P> One of his first major projects was the Sydney Opera House, where he worked as lead engineer on Jørn Utzon's design for the majority of its construction. </P>
Image: Courtesy of Sydney Opera House Trust
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