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Advertisement Showing Women's Coats
Advertisement taken from the Carlow Nationalist featuring a selection of women's coats, available at Shaw & Sons Ltd. department store, Tullow Street, Carlow. The advertisement shows the latest styles for winter in a variety of materials. The style shows the more generous approach to clothing design in the more affluent 1960s.
Examiner Group and Carlow Nationalist.
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Kelp, Finavarra. Co. Clare
Coastal communities in Ireland and Scotland used to harvest kelp, burn it and sell the ashes. The ashes contained substances which were used in glass making and pottery glazing.
© M.D. Guiry; www.species.ie
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Implement used for gathering seaweed
A seaweed crook. Used for gathering seaweed.
Courtesy Clare County Library
Image is present on following page(s): Quilty
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Toy Car by Minichamps
Photograph of a toy die-cast model of a Porsche Carrera GT, by Minichamps.
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Souvenir Catalogue for theTullow Show.
Image showing the cover of the Diamond Jubilee souvenir catalogue for the Tullow Agricultural Show run by Tullow Agricultural Show Society Ltd. The show was held in Coppenagh, Tullow on Sunday 21 August 2005.
Examiner Group and Carlow Nationalist.
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Workhouse Railings, Carlow
Railings from the old workhouse, Carlow. They are now used on the Youth Centre which was the old fever hospital.
© Peter Walker
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John Philip Holland and Submarine
John Philip Holland was the inventor of the modern submarine. This photograph shows Holland with one of his inventions.
Courtesy of the National Science & Engineering Plaques Committee
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Johnny Doran
The travelling piper Johnny Doran can be seen on the right of this photograph.
Courtesy NPU Archive
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The Rotunda Hospital
The Rotunda Hospital was established by Dr Bartholomew Mosse (1712-59), a surgeon and midwife born in Maryborough (now Portlaoise). He trained abroad, and returned determined to establish a lying-in and teaching hospital to treat Dublin women, rich and poor. His hospital opened in a small premises on South Great George's Street, which it quickly outgrew, so Mosse began campaigning for a larger premises: running lotteries (for which he was arrested), seeking donations, and holding fund-raising events (his fund benefited from the charity premiere of Handel's Messiah). In 1757 his New Lying-in Hospital, as it was called, opened in fine purpose-built premises, popularly known as the Rotunda, on account of its tower and cupola. Sadly, Mosse died two years later, penniless and exhausted. The new hospital, designed by architect Richard Cassells, had a pleasure garden, theatre and concert hall where the fundraising continued, to enable the hospital to treat poor women for free. The Rotunda had an international reputation for its midwifery training and attracted students from Britain, Europe, Russia and North America.
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Lighthouse, Scattery Island
The present lighthouse on Scattery Island opened in 1872. It replaced a simple iron framework which held a light and was destroyed in a storm just six months after construction.
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Mary Fort House
Mary Fort House, residence of the O'Callaghan family. The O'Callaghans owned a large estate in Clare. The house was demolished in 1967 by the last member of the family to live there.
Image is present on following page(s): The Bodyke evictions
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Oisin helps men in Tallaght to move a boulder.
Oisin helps a group of men in Tallaght to move a boulder. He sent the stone rolling down the hill and the men were amazed by this young man. Legend of Pre-Christian Ireland
Image is present on following page(s): Oisín agus Naomh Pádraig, Myths and Legends of South County Dublin, Oisín agus Naomh Pádraig (agus scealtaí eile as Gaeilge), Mrs. Bríd Costello
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Round Tower and Church, Clonmacnois
This is a photo of the ruins of Teampull Finghin, part of the ancient centre of Celtic Christianity at Clonmacnois, Co. Offaly, in Ireland. The monastic settlement was founded by St. Ciaran around 548AD. A local prince, Diarmuid ua Cerbhaill assisted the saint to erect the monastery there, and when he was elected king shortly after, he endowed the monastery with valuable riches. It was here that the book of Dun Cow and other ancient manuscripts are believed to have been written. Like most monastic sites of the Early Christian period, it was plundered by the Viking raids of the 9th and 10th centuries and again by the English Crown in Tudor times. Today the remains of the church at Teampull Finghin can be seen with a round tower attached to it. It is uncertain as to whether the round tower was built before or after the church as both structures have been damaged and reconstructed after various raids. The tower measures at 48 feet high to the base of the cap and has a diameter of 12 feet 6 inches at ground level.
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The Irish Liber Hymnorum 1
This is a sample of a piece of manuscript taken from the ancient writings known as the Irish Liber Hymnorum. This manuscript, made of vellum, was a compilation of prayers and hymns written in Latin and Irish, which were cited in the early Celtic Church. It was written in the eleventh century. It contains 34 vellum folios and an additional 3 scraps of vellum bound in at the end. The initial letters of the hymns are decoratively illuminated for the fist 31 folios, after which the style becomes less decorative and is thought to be of a much later date. Ref: The Irish Liber Hymnorum edited from the Manuscripts with translation notes and glossary, by J.H. Bernard, D.D., and R. Atkinson, LL.D., Volume 1, Test and Introduction, London, 1898
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Bookcover of 'True Irish Ghost Stories' by John Seymour.
Bookcover of 'True Irish Ghost Stories' by John Seymour.
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Royal Dublin Society
Royal Dublin Society Building and Grounds
Kilkenny County Library
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The Irish Liber Hymnorum 2
This is a sample of a piece of manuscript taken from the ancient writings known as the Irish Liber Hymnorum. This manuscript, made of vellum, was a compilation of prayers and hymns written in Latin and Irish, which were cited in the early Celtic Church. It was written in the eleventh century. It contains 34 vellum folios and an additional 3 scraps of vellum bound in at the end. The initial letters of the hymns are decoratively illuminated for the fist 31 folios, after which the style becomes less decorative and is thought to be of a much later date. Ref: The Irish Liber Hymnorum edited from the Manuscripts with translation notes and glossary, by J.H. Bernard, D.D., and R. Atkinson, LL.D., Volume 1, Test and Introduction, London, 1898.
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The Book of the Dean of Lismore 2
Here are two facsimiles from the Book of the Dean of Lismore: (1) Autograph of Dean McGregor, (2) part of Ossian’s Ode To Finn This manuscript is a collection of native literature from the Highlands of Scotland written in both Scottish and Irish. It contains poetry and annals from both countries showing the similarities between the two with the influence of the bardic schools. Much of the poetry is of a particular kind known as Ossianic Poetry. These ancient bardic verses were composed by Ossian and his clan. The manuscript itself is believed to have been written by James McGregor, the Dean of Lismore, after inspection of his signature found on one of the pages in the book. The language is written in a phonetic orthograghy as opposed to Gaelic/Irish orthography, meaning that the words are written as they are pronounced. This is similar to the principal of the Welsh and Manx languages. However the letter used is the English letter of the 15th and 16th centuries. Ref: The Dean of Lismore’s Book; a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by Sir James McGregor, Dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, edited with a translation and notes by the Rev. Thomas McLoughlan and an introduction and additional notes by William F. Skene Esq, Edinburgh Edmonston and Douglas 1862, Page xcvi.
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The Book of the Dean of Lismore 1
Here are two facsimiles from the Book of the Dean of Lismore: (1) Genealogy of McGregor, by Dougal the servitor and (2) lines by Countess of Argyle. Almost all of the book, with the exception of a few latin notes is written in Gaelic and hosts a collection of Irish poetry. On page 144 the genealogy of the mcgregors was written by the brother Dougal. It outlines their line of decent from the Scottish kings. It is signed in the year 1512. Ref: The Dean of Lismore’s Book; a selection of ancient Gaelic poetry from a manuscript collection made by Sir James McGregor, Dean of Lismore, in the beginning of the sixteenth century, edited with a translation and notes by the Rev. Thomas McLoughlan and an introduction and additional notes by William F. Skene Esq, Edinburgh Edmonston and Douglas 1862, Frontpiece.
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Royal Dublin Society
Photograph 1 of Royal Dublin Society
Library Council
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Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell only spent 9 months in Ireland from August 1649 to May 1650, but his impact was to be everlasting on the island. With fierce brutality Cromwell succeed in completing the English conquest of Ireland where others had failed. Cromwell first set a course to Drogheda. 3,500 men women and children were killed over the two day battle, with the city suffering heavy bombardment. Nearby towns surrendered or evacuated. Less than a month later, Cromwell arrived at Wexford town. Here over 1500 people were slaughtered in the massacre that ensued. Cromwell rested in Youghal until the spring of 1650 and then turned his attention towards Kilkenny and the Tipperary towns of Fethard, Clonmel and Cashel. By May 1650 Ireland had been placed under British rule and Cromwell returned home. Sieges on both Limerick and Galway, the last city under Irish control to fall, ended in October and November 1650 respectively. English rule in Ireland was complete.
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Glass of Milk
A glass of milk splashing over the sides
Image courtesy of Bord Bia
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Feature: Stair na Gaeilge
Irish, Language, Literature and Traditions by Dr. Briona NicDhiarmada, the Irish language's growth, decline & revival, it's champions, it's heroes & the myths and legends of today and yesterday.
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Hill of Tara
Photograph of the Hill of Tara
Courtesy of Library Council
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Bailed silage
Bailes of silage being saved in a field.
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Exports
A field of cattle with a farmhouse in the background.
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21st Century Computer
21st Century Computer
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Science
Science in Ireland image showing Newgrange.
Courtesy of Carlow County Library
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Cattle show
participants at a cattle show as seen from above.
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Silage making
A meadow with grass being harvested to be made into silage.
Silage making