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Walkinstown Library Reading Group
Walkinstown Reading Group
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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. -
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.
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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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The Spindle-tree -
Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith.
Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith.
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Portrait of Oliver Goldsmith. -
Breda Sullivan
Breda Sullivan
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Breda Sullivan -
Birthplace of Patrick MacGill
Black& white photograph of the cottage in Glenties where Donegal author Patrick MacGill was born.
Donegal County Library
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Birthplace of Patrick MacGill -
Drawing of MacGreevy by Seán O'Sullivan
A line drawing of MacGreevy by Irish artist Seán O'Sullivan
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Drawing of MacGreevy by Seán O'Sullivan -
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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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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Goldsmith contemplates Lissoy. -
Letter from Maria Edgeworth
Letter from Maria Edgeworth
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Letter from Maria Edgeworth -
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
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Photograph of Patrick MacGill -
Seán Dunne
Seán Dunne, photograph from the Irish Examiner
© Irish Exanimer
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Seán Dunne -
Kathy Rodgers
Kathy Rodgers
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Kathy Rodgers -
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.
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Raven -
Noel Monahan
Noel Monahan
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Noel Monahan -
Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
A plan of Cork in 1545
Copyright Cork City Library
Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built. -
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Photograph of George Bernard Shaw
Reproduced with the kind permission of the National Trust (U. K.)
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) -
Mary Melvin Geoghegan
Mary Melvin Geoghegan
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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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Dr. Derek Hand, Author of the Irish Writers feature -
Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke
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Vona Groarke -
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
There are over 600 different flowering plants in the Burren in County Clare. -
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.
In 2007, we created the weight of 428,000 double decker buses in waste -
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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Glencree and Sugar Loaf Mountain
Picture postcard. One of the many areas in County Wicklow that Synge knew and loved.
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Glencree and Sugar Loaf Mountain -
It’s best not to create waste in the first place
The waste keeps piling up.
Copyright Environmental Protection Agency
It’s best not to create waste in the first place -
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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Portrait of Sir Walter Scott
Portrait of Sir Walter Scott. This was presented to Maria Edgeworth after his visit to Edgeworthstown in August 1824.
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In Wicklow, West Kerry etc. by J.M. Synge
This is the fourth volume from a collection called "The Works of John M. Synge in 4 volumes" publsihed in 1910. This volume is a collection of essays written by Synge about his travels through Wicklow, Kerry & Connemara.
Wicklow County Library
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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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Title page of an 1814 edition of Castle Rackrent. -
Rushy fields in Fawnavoy Upper
Black and white photograph showing Mt Errigal, Co Donegal, in the background. Photographed by Dutch photographic artist Jan Voster in collaboration with Donegal author Cathal O Searcaigh. The region where this photograph was taken is Fawnavoy Upper, in O Searcaigh’s home ground. Mt Errigal can be compared to Mt Fuji in the shape of its outline. In the foreground can be seen the overgrowth of rushes on what was once fertile farmland. O Searcaigh regrets the dying out of tillage in the area, and says in the text accompanying this scene: “The starved soil of much of the farmlands has become infected by an epidemic of rushes. Like an army they rout the field and then they amass themselves there in solid formation, a seedy self-seeking legion…I’m nostalgic for a whole way of life that is vanishing. And with it goes a whole accumulation of wisdom about handling stock and sowing seeds.”
Copyright Donegal County Council/Clo Iar-Chonnachta
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Rushy fields in Fawnavoy Upper