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Brochure promoting the Abbey Theatre as a venue for hire December 1904 (Dublin City Library)
Brochure promoting the Abbey Theatre as a Venue for hire December 1904
© The Abbey Theatre
Image is present on following page(s): The Literary Revival: space & representation
Brochure promoting the Abbey Theatre as a venue for hire December 1904 (Dublin City Library) -
Those Showband Days (Waterford City Library)
Those Showband Days - a cartoon by Robbie O'Keeffe 1991
© Munster Express (O'Keeffe, Dower and Commerford)
Those Showband Days (Waterford City Library) -
Irish Language conversation group
Photograph of Irish Language conversation group in The Central Library, Dublin
By kind permission of Dublin City Public Libraries
Image is present on following page(s): The Language of Irish Writing
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Edgeworth Family Tree (Longford Co. Library)
Image is present on following page(s): Hiberno-English: dawn of modern Irish writing
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Ballina Street Scene, 1946 (Mayo Co.)
Bord Fáilte photograph from 1946 of one of the main streets in Ballina. Compared to an earlier photograph from 1900, the most noticeable features are the cars and the absence of horse-drawn transport.
Courtesy Fáilte Ireland
Image is present on following page(s): Irish Authors
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Edgeworthstown's poor during the Great Famine
A Sketch of Edgeworthstown's poor during the Great Famine. This was taken as they assembled for soup in February 1847.
Image is present on following page(s): Hiberno-English: dawn of modern Irish writing
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Handwritten poem by Padraig Colum.
Handwritten poem by Padraig Colum.This was included in a letter addressed to Thomas McDonagh, a friend of Colum and one of the leaders of the 1916 Rising.
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Handwritten poem by Padraig Colum. -
Map of Sligo (Sligo Co. Library)
© Sligo County Library,Ordnance Survey 1885. Local History Collection No.982
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Snowy Street Scene, College Green 1902 (Dublin City Library)
Snowy Street Scene, College Green 1902. This photograph shows trams, and parked awaiting hire, horsedrawn cabs known as "cars" driven by drivers known as "jarveys". The automobile is not yet a common feature on Dublin's streets.
By kind permission of Dublin City Public Libraries.
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Maria Edgeworth (Longford Co. Library)
Image is present on following page(s): Hiberno-English: dawn of modern Irish writing
Maria Edgeworth (Longford Co. Library) -
Dublin slum dwellers, 1901 (Dublin City Library)
Black and white illustration of Dublin Slum dwellers in article entitled 'The Last of an Historic Dublin Slum' written by Mary Costello, photograph by Mrs. Charles O'Connor. The Lady of the House magazine, Volume XII, Number 143, Christmas, 1901, page 11.
© Dublin City Public Libraries
Image is present on following page(s): The Language of Irish Writing, The City Space
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Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett
Photograph of Thomas MacGreevy and Samuel Beckett in a London street in the 1930s
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Streetscene of O'Connell St. from O'Connell Bridge (Dublin City Library)
Streetscene of O'Connell St. from O'Connell Bridge circa 1953. The tram rails are still embedded in the ground but the trams and overheads are gone. The flowerbed in the central isle was created for a tourism festival in 1953.
By kind permission of Seamus Kearns, Old Dublin Society
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Pamphlet referring to the Dublin Strike, 1913 (Dublin City Library)
The Dublin Strike by 'A.E' (George W. Russell), A Plea for the workers: a speech delivered in the Royal Albert Hall, London, November 1, 1913, to an audience of 12,000 persons, published by the 'Irish Worker' Press, Liberty Hall, Dublin, 1913
© Dublin City Public Libraries
Image is present on following page(s): The Literary Revival: space & representation
Pamphlet referring to the Dublin Strike, 1913 (Dublin City Library) -
Richard Lowell Edgeworth (Longford Co. Library)
Image is present on following page(s): Hiberno-English: dawn of modern Irish writing
Richard Lowell Edgeworth (Longford Co. Library) -
Eva And Constance Gore-Booth
Eva And Constance Gore-Booth © Sligo County Library
Image is present on following page(s): 1916, The City Space
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Letter from Maria Edgeworth
Letter from Maria Edgeworth
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Letter from Maria Edgeworth -
Votes For Women
Black And White Images Showing Votes For Women © Sligo County Library
Image is present on following page(s): Irish Authors, Manchester
Votes For Women -
John Hogan Portrait
John Hogan Portrait by Bernard Mulrenin. Taken from 'The Capuchin Annual' 1946-47
Courtesy of Cork City Libraries
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Dublin Silver Cream Jug, 1738
Dublin Silver Cream Jug, 1738
© Douglas Bennett
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The View from the Library Window of Edgeworthstown House.
The View from the Library Window of Edgeworthstown House. This was sketched in 1868 and shows the lawns in summertime, a view Maria loved.
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Lear and Cordelia
Lear and Cordelia by Daniel Maclise, painted c. 1843
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
Image is present on following page(s): Daniel Maclise (1806-1870), Daniel Maclise, Daniel Maclise
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Title Page of 1795 Edition of Letters for Literary Ladies
Title Page of 1795 Edition of Letters for Literary Ladies. his was printed in London for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard.
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From one generation to the next
Photograph of Pat Cash and his son with Johnny Doran
Courtesy NPU Archive
Image is present on following page(s): Irish Traditional Music Feature, Irish Traditional Music Feature, Traditional Irish Music, Traditional Irish Music, Traditional Irish Music
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Walkinstown Library Reading Group
Walkinstown Reading Group
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Conor Byrne
Flute player - Conor Byrne
Courtesy Helmut Riedl
Image is present on following page(s): Irish Traditional Music Feature, Irish Traditional Music Feature
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James Barry Self-Portrait
Self-portrait of artist James Barry in which he portrays two of his friends: James Paine Jr and Dominique Lefèvre.
Courtesy of Cork City Libraries
Image is present on following page(s): James Barry (1741-1806), James Barry, James Barry
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Dancing a half set
Dancing a half set in the late Paddy Hennessy's pub, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare (1992)
Copyright Tony Kearns
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Ballymun Library Reading Group
Ballymun Reading Group
By kind permission of Dublin City Council
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Man writing circa 1848
Illustration of a man writing taken from the Illustrated London News 1848.
Carlow County Library
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Illustration from Cassell's Illustrated Works of Oliver Goldsmith.
Illustration from Cassell's Illustrated Works of Oliver Goldsmith.Few if any poetic work has been published in as many illustrated editions as The Deserted Village.This is taken from a London edition published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin with an introduction by John Francis Waller.
Image is present on following page(s): Longford's Literary History
Illustration from Cassell's Illustrated Works of Oliver Goldsmith. -
Cover of a 1848 edition of Orlandino.
Cover of a 1848 edition of Orlandino.This edition was published in Edinburgh by William and Robert Chambers and forms the first of a series of works entitled Chamber's Library for Young People.
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Cover of a 1848 edition of Orlandino.