Old Ireland

Introduction It’s April the 8th, 2012, Easter Monday in the liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church, and the ninety-sixth anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. Nine decades ago, on …

Garda on point duty O'Connell Street. 1963

Love this photo for its glimpse of an old, old thoroughfare in Dublin - Merchant's Arch - its shopkeepers, customers, wares and passersby. But it is the little boy who draws the eye. If ever there was a child on a mission, it's surely him! And he's been identified over a year after we first shared this photo. Meet Colm Irwin, identified by his grown up self. Apparently it was a toy gun he was carrying. Colm aka Ci0406 said: "Cheers my name is Colm Irwin and I was about 3. It was strange how…

Guinness Train Photograph by Irish Photo Archive

View of O’Connell Street from Nelson’s Pillar, Dublin 1964 by Erich Hartmann

Lady reading on OConnell bridge 1950's

“A man sharing a pint with his son inside an Irish Pub, 1950s.”

Imgur: The magic of the Internet

[College Green, Dublin. County Dublin, Ireland] [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color. Notes: Print shows Trinity College (in background) and Statue of King William III. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010) Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Photographic Company, 1905.. Print no. "12047". Forms part of: Views of Ireland in the Photochrom print collection. Subjects: Ireland--County Dublin…

Unknown woman, O'Connell Bridge, Dublin 1956