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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/120.gifThe National Library of Ireland is seeking the public’s help in an attempt to find out more about the images in its collection. Some questions have been answered through its flickr page (http://iti.ms/wTabRa) but some remain a mystery.
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/27.gifA prisoner under escort at the south western front during the Irish Civil War. Given the situation, everyone looks remarkably relaxed. Date: July 22nd, 1922. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/37.gifThe Beatles emerging from the Ritz Cinema, Fisherwick Place, Belfast following their concert. Can't spot Ringo Starr, so perhaps he was still inside. They had played the Adelphi Cinema in Dublin the day before. Date: November 8th, 1963. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/47.gifThis unidentified woman was photographed for a Dr JC Walsh, Clonmel, Co Tipperary specifically to show the effects of Pellagra. This disease is caused by a lack of the vitamin Niacin, and skin problems are the most common symptom. Date: August 12th, 1937. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/57.gifA physical culture class from the Poole Collection. Date: April 27th, 1909. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/67.gifThis shot of joking Black and Tans and Auxiliaries was taken outside the London and North Western Hotel, North Wall, Dublin as they surveyed the damage after an IRA attack on their quarters. Written on the mount of this photo was "Tans glad to have escaped the bombs thrown at their headquarters in Dublin". Date: April 11th, 1921. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/78.gifThe Four Courts during the Battle of Dublin. The building had been taken over by anti-Treaty forces on April 14th, 1922. Bombarded by National Army forces on June 28th and 29th, a huge explosion of stored munitions on June 30th destroyed the Public Records Office, and with it a huge swathe of Irish cultural memory. Date: June 30th, 1922. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/87.gifThree Men in a Boat, accompanied by five delightfully behatted women somewhere near Lurgan, Co Armagh. The photographer's scrawl has been transcribed as “Rinego?” and “Pinegs?”, neither sound plausible as a location name. Date: Circa 1905. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/97.gifThis scene is the closing ceremony of the Eucharistic Congress that was held in Dublin in June 1932. Earlier in the day, there had been a solemn pontifical high mass at 1pm in the Phoenix Park, with a special choir of 500 men and boys. A procession estimated at one million people, described as "miles of praying people", then made its way to O'Connell Bridge. The service of benediction and hymns on O'Connell Bridge took place around 5.30pm, and the Papal Legate Cardinal Lorenzo Lauri gave his final address of the Eucharistic Congress from this location. Date: June 26th, 1932. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/106.gifA fisherman with his Currach at Ardara, Co Donegal. Date: Circa 1897. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/1111.gifIslanders on Inisheer bringing a bullock out to Dublin built steamer, the Dún Aengus, for transport to Galway. This is how livestock had to be transported from the island between 1921 and 1958 until a pier was built on Inisheer in 1997. Date: May 31st, 1939. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/127.gifThis is millionaire industrialist and library philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, pictured with assembled dignitaries for the laying of the foundation stone of Waterford Free Library at Lady Lane - one of five free libraries in Waterford that Carnegie sponsored. Date: October 19th, 1903. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/135.gifThis woman is one of the most vibrant portraits in the collection. The girl with her in the check dress appears in another Wiltshire shot, taken in Moore Street, Dublin on the same day. The basket holder to the right is held by the woman in that photo. Date: 1964. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/145.gifOriginal Information: "SW Harris Esq Ashfield House. 3/4 standing, hat on" A Flickr user tammybeck said: “Thanks to my resourceful friend in Dublin, John O'Grady for looking him up: 1911 census of Ireland He was Lieutenant Samuel Wallace Harris, Quartermaster, The Royal Irish Regiment. Recorded in the 1911 census at, Danville, Kilkenny. He was 38 years old and had been born in Tasmania…” What he was doing in Danville, Kilkenny, is something else. Danville is about 1 mile outside of Kilkenny city, so it can be presumed that Harris was based in a barracks close to the town centre. Date: August 3rd, 1912. Photographer: AH Poole. Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/155.gifOriginal Information: “Armoured car with soldiers in background" According to Flickr users the photograph is of a Peerless Armoured Car, one of two used in a seabourne attack on Cork in early August 1922. The troops were National Army soldiers. The location was opposite the post office on the corner of Strand Street and Railway Street in Passage West, Co Cork. The business with the gable wall beside the car was owned by a PJ Fitzgerald who lived above the shop which traded as a drapers. Date: August 8/9th, 1922. Photographer: WD Hogan Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/24.jpgOriginal Information: "Aeroplane on roof at Barrack St" According to Flickr users the crash happened in November 1920 as a ‘Scout’ plane, carrying despatches from Fermoy to Waterford Barracks and manned by flying officers Briggs and McKiehan, crashed into the roofs of two houses opposite the barracks. The house on the left was Mr Aspel's licensed premises, and the one on the right was privately owned by a Mrs McSweeney. Date: November 1920. Photographer: AH Poole Photographic Studio Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/184.gifWoman with shopping basket, Moore Street Market, Dublin. Date: 1964. Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/193.gifGroup portrait of five railway workers holding a sign "Not Movable" and a large wrench, Broadstone in Dublin. Date: April 4th, 1961. Photographer: James P O'Dea Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/201.gifMan sitting outside furniture shop, Merchant's Arch, Temple Bar, Dublin. Date: 1969. Photographer: Elinor Wiltshire Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/213.gifThe Huming Birds group per “Mr Bor” Date: December 6th, 1924. Photographer: AH Poole Photographic Studio Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/222.gifRev Father Conlon, Handball Court Date: May 30th, 1931. Photographer: AH Poole Photographic Studio Image from the National Library of Ireland
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http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/gallery/files/2012/02/23.jpgOriginal Information: "Fisherman, Portmagee, Co Kerry" According to Flickr users this is Tadhg Devane, who would have been around 58 at the time this photo was taken. Tadhg died aged 63 in 1968. Date: June 1963. Photographer: Richard Tilbrook Image from the National Library of Ireland
