... or is it a giant rug? Either way, it's getting great scrutiny from these two men at a carpet factory in Killybegs. Wonder where it ended up? And is the factory still on the go?
Photographer: Denis Tynan, 1923-2010
Collection: Tynan Photographic Collection
Date: 1970-1979
NLI Ref: NPA TYN1040
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Tags: Denis Tynan Tynan Photographic Collection Killybegs Donegal Ulster Ireland Carpet Factory Carpets Rugs Textiles National Library of Ireland 1970s Donegal Carpets
Now we'll have no sniggering down the back of the class, if you please! We expect you all to comport yourselves with maturity today, as we investigate the life and career of Madame Clara Butt...
Photographer: Claude Harris
Collection: NLI Ephemera Collection
Date: April-May 1917
NLI Ref: EPH C481
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Tags: Madame Clara Butt April May 1917 1910s Twentieth Century Ibbs & Tillett Concert Programme Ireland Ephemera Collection National Library of Ireland Contralto Caruso of Contraltos
We've come across Sharman D. Neill before, but never in the context of the Irish Pearl Industry.
Was there such an industry? Did it prove capable of development? Which rivers? What happened this string of pearls?
Photographer: Unknown
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1890-1910?
NLI Ref: M9/17
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Tags: Thomas Holmes Mason Thomas Mayne Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited Lantern Slides Sharman D. Neill Belfast Donegall Place Ulster Ireland Northern Ireland Pearls National Library of Ireland Flattie Seedie Brownie
A large group of workers from the Navan Sawmill pose for a photograph. When you consider the nature of the work, the dress of the men demonstrates how workwear fashions have changed. Those places were labour intensive with lots of sawdust and dirt flying about, yet they all have suit jackets, shirts, and in many cases, ties.
Photographer: Thomas H. Mason
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890-1910 1915-1919
NLI Ref: M25/J/19
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Tags: National Library of Ireland National Photographic Archive Mason Photographic Collection Glass plate negative Navan Sawmills Navan County Meath Leinster Ireland group photo men and boys 112 people Black and White Analogue Photography Analogue workwear workplace 20th Century glass negative Location Identified Thomas Holmes Mason Thomas Mayne Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited Lantern Slides
The arrest of "Big" Jim Larkin in August 1913 is captured here by a Daily Mirror photographer. Jim is held by what appears to be two senior officers while he is surrounded by members of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
Photographers: Daily Mirror Photographer
Collection: Jim Larkin and Family Photographic Collection
Date: Thursday, 28 August 1913
NLI Ref: NPA LAR4
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Tags: National Library of Ireland National Photographic Archive Jim Larkin and family Photographic Collection Sackville Street O'Connell Street Dublin Big JIm Larkin Nelsons Pillar Dublin Metropolitan Police DMP 20th Century Ireland Leinster Thursday August 1913 1910s