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Railways of Roscommon
The Great Northern Western Railway opened the line between Athlone and Roscommon on the 13th February 1860 and the extension to Castlerea was completed on the 15th November 1860 In 1863 the Sligo and ...
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Leisure, Recreation And Distraction
... Dargle Wall and Portion of Room carried away Charles Russell Royal Avenue Belfast published postcards depicting the fatal airplane crash at the Balmoral Show in Belfast in September 1912 while the ...
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Topographical Postcards
... When I looked out from my bedroom window on Sunday morning I saw the Mauritania lying in pretty close Around the picture of the harbour below are the words Sun Terraces Dun Laoghaire To swell your ...
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The Political Postcard
Almost from its inception postcard publication was caught up in the politically reality of British rule in Ireland As a result of an international agreement concerning the delivery of mail between ...
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Real Life
As with topographical postcards publishers of Irish postcards sought to give a view of real life in Ireland by illustrating working practices transport and communications The firm of Lawrence s of ...
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Esplanade at Queenstown
Colour postcard of the Explanade and sea-front at QueenstownEsplanade at Queenstown
Colour postcard of the Explanade and sea-front at Queenstown
Reproduced by kind permission of Linen Hall Library Postcard Archive
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Religious Connotations
Another popular theme for postcards was religious events In June 1932 the 31st International Eucharistic Congress was held over five days in Dublin The Papal Legate Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri arrived in ...
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Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown and its Postcards
The golden age of postcards as already mentioned ran from 1898 1914 approximately and that is when the bulk of this postcard collection for the county dates from The area covered by this county is ...
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Bibliography
Dockrell John Blackrock Society Proceedings 1993 1994 Page 18 Feldman David Handbook of Irish Philately David Feldman Ltd 1968 Grimes Brendan Irish Carnegie Libraries a catalogue and architectural ...
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Postcard Messages
The messages contained in postcards are necessarily brief and generally lighthearted as the sender is normally on holidays and switched off from the day to day routines of home and work The passage of ...
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