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Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith.
Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith.
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Drawing of MacGreevy by Seán O'Sullivan
A line drawing of MacGreevy by Irish artist Seán O'Sullivan
Image is present on following page(s): Thomas MacGreevy 1893-1967
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Birthplace of Patrick MacGill
Black& white photograph of the cottage in Glenties where Donegal author Patrick MacGill was born.
Donegal County Library
Image is present on following page(s): Patrick MacGill - 'The Navvy Poet'
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Goldsmith contemplates Lissoy.
Goldsmith contemplates Lissoy.This sketch is taken from a 1909 edition of The Deserted Village, illustrated by W. Lee Hankey, and published by Constable & Company Ltd., London.
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Sketch of a Young Pádraic Colum
Sketch of a Young Pádraic Colum. This was sketched in 1907 by Jack B. Yeats, and is included in the first edition of Colum's play, The Fiddler's House, printed in 1909 in Dublin, by Maunsel & Company.
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Raven
The sketch depicts the event that signalled Cuchulainn's death. Cuchulainn had tied himself to an upright stone, and appeared to be still alive that was until a raven landed on his shoulder thus indicating that Cuchulainn was dead.
Image is present on following page(s): Story Telling, The Literary Revival: space & representation
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Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke
Image is present on following page(s): Writing In Longford Today, Vona Groarke
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Noel Monahan
Noel Monahan
Image is present on following page(s): Writing In Longford Today, Noel Monahan
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Seán Dunne
Seán Dunne, photograph from the Irish Examiner
© Irish Exanimer
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Photograph of Patrick MacGill
Black and White photograph of Patrick MacGill. This is a photograph of MacGill as a ‘navvy’, a labourer, taken of him standing in a field, possibly in Scotland.
With permission from Donegal County Archives
Image is present on following page(s): Patrick MacGill - 'The Navvy Poet'
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Mary Melvin Geoghegan
Mary Melvin Geoghegan
Image is present on following page(s): Writing In Longford Today, Mary Melvin Geoghegan
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Breda Sullivan
Breda Sullivan
Image is present on following page(s): Writing In Longford Today, Breda Sullivan
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Kathy Rodgers
Kathy Rodgers
Image is present on following page(s): Writing In Longford Today, Kathy Rodgers
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Edward Bunting
Edward Bunting was one of the major collectors of Irish traditional music. He was commissioned to notate the music played at the 1792 Belfast Harp Festival, and continued to collect the 'Ancient Music of Ireland' for the rest of his life.
Image courtesy of Simon Chadwick and www.earlygaelicharp.info
Image is present on following page(s): Collectors, Collectors
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John McCormack
Image of Irish Tenor John McCormack (1884-1945)
© Dublin City Public Libraries
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Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
A plan of Cork in 1545
Copyright Cork City Library
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Dr. Derek Hand, Author of the Irish Writers feature
Derek Hand teaches in the English Department in St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra. He is interested in Irish writing in general and has published articles on W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen and on contemporary Irish fiction. His book John Banville: Exploring Fictions was published in 2002 by The Liffey Press. He is a frequent reviewer of Irish fiction for the Irish Times.
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In 2007, we created the weight of 428,000 double decker buses in waste
The image shows a bin on a street packed full of household and commerical waste.
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There are over 600 different flowering plants in the Burren in County Clare.
English Name: Burnet rose, Scotch rose Botanical Name (Latin): Rosa pimpinellifolia (R. spinosissima) Irish Name: Briúlán Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ROSACEAE Brief Description: Very spiny, deciduous shrub, usually c. 0.5m tall; flowers solitary, white, cream or pink; hip black with persistent crown of sepals.
Carsten Krieger
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Michael Kelly
Contemporary drawing of Michael Kelly, opera singer and theatre manager (1762-1826)
© Dublin City Public Libraries
Image is present on following page(s): Michael Kelly and the Mozart Connection, Michael Kelly and the Mozart Connection, Michael Kelly and the Mozart Connection
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Ireland’s biodiversity is rich and varied
The Dingle Dolphin named Fungi, has become a firm favourite with locals and tourists. The young bottle-nosed dolphin has been around our shores since 1984.
Copyright Mike Brown
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Homepage of Pilot Website
Screen shot of the homepage of Waterford Museum of Treasure
Image is present on following page(s): Three-Dimensional Objects Pilot Project
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A Sketch of 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.
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Title page of an 1814 edition of Castle Rackrent.
Title page of an 1812 edition of Castle Rackrent. This was printed for J. Johnson&Co., St. Paul's, Church-Yard.
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George Bernard Shaw received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on 26th July 1856. He was the son of George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw (nee Gurly). His formal education finished early and he started work at the age of fifteen. Shaw’s ties with Carlow are particulary noteworthy. His uncle Dr. John Walter Gurly who died in 1899 bequeathed all his properties in the Carlow area to Shaw’s mother and thereafter to his six step sisters should they remain unmarried. However, they all did marry and so Shaw became the owner. One of the properties was the Assembly Rooms donated to the Technical Instruction Committee in 1919. In 1944, Shaw made a bequest of his entire Carlow properties to Carlow Urban Council. This became the basis of the Civic Improvement Fund. Many portraits of Shaw exist but this bust of Shaw is by the Sculptor, Sava Botzaris (1894-1965). He was born in the former Yugoslavia. The bust is housed in Carlow County Library, in Tullow Street, Carlow.
Carlow County Library
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It’s best not to create waste in the first place
The waste keeps piling up.
Copyright Environmental Protection Agency
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The Spindle-tree
The Spindle-tree is a selection of work by Carlow Writers’ Group. Contents the Right Type of Friends by Margaret O’Rourke, Jack in the Box by Robert Duffy, The Handyman by Dermot McKenna, Childhood by Deirdre Brennan, Egypt’s Child-King by Marie McGrath, Song by Larry O’Reilly, The Face that Speaks by Lily Dempsey, Peter’s Funeral Phil Littleton, Lenten Mass by Olivia Doyle, Pot-pourri of childhood by Betty Ryan O’Gorman, Embryotic Blossoms by Maria O’Rourke, In my dreams by Valerie O’Rourke, Edel by Maire Nic Aoidh, Finscealaiocht by Deirdre Brennan, Paris by Padraig o Snodaigh, Mo Rockstar by Clodagh Ni Bhranain, Siulaim tri sheomra by Rita Kelly, Tiuilip by Phil Lyttleton, Sliocht as saothar fada by Antaine o Broin, The birth by Marian Dalton, Meat by Martin Fennell.
Carlow County Library
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Illustration from Tales of Fashionable Life
Illustration from 1832 edition of Tales of Fashionable Life by Maria Edgeworth.Underneath is a quotation from Ennui. This edition was published in 1832 in London by Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row.
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Portrait of Sir Walter Scott
Portrait of Sir Walter Scott. This was presented to Maria Edgeworth after his visit to Edgeworthstown in August 1824.
Image is present on following page(s): Later Life
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The Luncheon (2002) by Caroline McCarthy (b.1971)
The Luncheon (2002) by Caroline McCarthy (b.1971) is a photograph of a Dutch-style ‘still life’. Her version is modelled from water and toilet tissue, with plastic glasses and tinfoil plates, all resting on a ‘tablecloth’ made from black bin-liners. The work reflects concerns about wastefullness of consumer society.
AIB Art Collection
Image is present on following page(s): Irish Art Today, Irish Art Today, Irish Art Today, Irish Art Today, Irish Art Today
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Beneath the 'bow (1991) by Michael Warren (b.1950)
Beneath the 'bow (1991) by Michael Warren (b.1950) explores the abstract principles of gravity and balance.
Image is present on following page(s): Irish Art Today, Irish Art Today, Abstract Art, Abstract Art, Irish Art Today
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The Holy Well (1916) by William Orpen (1878-1931)
The Holy Well (1916) by William Orpen (1878-1931) includes classical nude figures, for allegorical purposes, perhaps to suggest the innocence before Adam and Eve’s fall from grace, rather than as a realistic, literal description of a pilgrimage to a holy well. Courtesy of the National Gallery of Ireland
Photo (c) National Gallery of Ireland
Image is present on following page(s): Artists' Education and Training, The Nude, Artists' Education and Training, The Nude, William Orpen, William Orpen, The Nude, Artists' Education and Training
The Holy Well (1916) by William Orpen (1878-1931)