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Soccer
... and won the league in 1934 Prominent players of the day were Paddy Hayden J Quigley P Shaw and Mark and Joe Piggott It appears that Carlow Rovers ceased all sporting activity during the period of ...
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Concise message on a postcard
Concise message on a postcard
The golden age of postcards dated from the late 1890s until about 1914. Postcards were a very popular method of communication. One reason for this was the small space on the back of them for writing messages. Communications had to be short and concise. It proved a lot less tedious than letter writing and so appealed to everyone. Such was the speed of deliveries at the time (sometimes up to six per day) that people could make arrangements to meet up on the day they sent the postcard
Image acquired from The Collectors' Shop, Blackrock.
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Monkstown Church today
Monkstown Church today
This digital camera image shows Monkstown Church as it is in 2004. The image, when compared with the postcard from 1906, shows how little the building has changed. It was built in 1831 and has attracted attention, over the years, because of its striking, unique design. Improvements have been made to the building since but it remains true to its original design. John Semple designed the church.
Digital image taken for project.
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Town hall and Castle Street, Dalkey
Town hall and Castle Street, Dalkey
Castle Street and the Town Hall are visible in this postcard. The Town Hall was previously the Goat Castle, one of seven castles in Dalkey during the fifteenth century. In 1869 it became the Town Hall and today it also houses the heritage centre. The Dalkey tram service was very profitable and ran from 1898 until 1949. The track leading to the right-hand side of the picture took the trams to the tramyard.
Image acquired from The Collectors' Shop, Blackrock.
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Monkstown Church
Monkstown Church
The present church in Monkstown dates from 1831 and is the fifth parish church. It is a striking design with notable features like loop windows (arrow slits) and clasping buttresses. The previous church on the same site was deemed too small to serve the congregation after its completion in 1789. The church has attracted varying comments on its design over the years. The Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette declared the design to be ‘an imposing piece of architecture'. Improvements have been made to the church since it was built, for example, the new chancel built in 1862.
Image acquired from The Collectors' Shop, Blackrock.
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Golf
... the pavilion at Gotham in 1904 It cost 99 The Golf Club moved to a site at Oak Park on the Bruen Estate in 1922 Cecil Baracroft was the architect and designed this 18 hole links on a 164 acre site Mr ...
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Memories of a Liffey Swim Winner
... in the Four Provinces Ballroom in Upper Camden Street I think The cup was presented to me once again The following day when I returned to my hometown of Carlow I was met at the train station by ...
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A Brief History of the Liffey Swim
... him a silver medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics competition for artistic endeavour You can view The Liffey Swim in the National Gallery of Ireland During the 1930s 1940s and early 1950s the Liffey Swim ...
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Rowing
... the prize fund amounted to 34 and ten shillings The rowing races began at a point know as Sandy Hills owned by Pat McDonald and the course extended to the Old Graves However this regatta ran at a ...
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