Luncheon to Éamon de Valera by Women's Irish Education League, Nov. 16th 1919 is the caption with this photo. A ballroom crammed with tables, each one surrounded by people, mostly ladies, with US flags and Irish tricolours spread about. I hope that the food was suitable for the occasion.
Photographer: Hellinge? &Co.
Date: Sunday, 16 Tuesday, 18 November 1919
NLI Ref: NPA LDV
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags: National Library of Ireland National Photographic Archive Photographic Collection Mr. Eamonn DeValera United States of America 1919 19/11/1919 Luncheon for Mr. DeValera Women's Irish Education League packed ballroom tables ladies gentlemen priests religious 20th Century Ireland
A very interesting photo from the Mason stable of the Purty Kitchen in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. As far as I am aware there is still a pub and restaurant called the Purty Kitchen out there, I wonder if it is the same premises / business or have there been changes over the years?
Photographer: Thomas H. Mason
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: 1890-1910
NLI Ref: M15/15
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags: Thomas Holmes Mason Thomas Mayne Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited Lantern Slides National Library of Ireland The Purty Kitchen Dun Laoghaire Dresser plate Pub Inn Kitchen food Dublin Ireland
Yet another photo from the collection of the late Uachtarain na hEireann, Sean T. O'Ceallaigh (President of Ireland). A dinner in honour of then Archbishop Mannix who was a very well known and liked Irish born cleric with Mr. O'Kelly on the right behind the man with the moustache!
Photographers: Unknown
Collection: Sean T. O'Kelly Photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1940 14th April 1921
NLI Ref: NPA OKE/80
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags: Dublin Ireland Leinster National Library of Ireland The Sean T. O'Kelly Photographic Collection Sean T. O'Kelly President of Ireland Archbishop Mannix dinner in honour tuxedos Location Identified Banquet honour Grand Hotel Paris Paris France Mr & Mrs S. T O Ceallaig. John P. Meagher Sydney M R Bouleye T. Hughes Kelly New York Sean T O Ceallaigh Mons Marc Sangnier Mons Y M Goblet Irish Independent Freemans Journal Rome London April 14 1921 John V Meagher Australia M J Boglaye Thomas Hughes Kelly Most Rev Dr Mannix Mons Marc Langnier Mons Y N Goblet People Identified Date Established
This could prove to be a stumbling block in the pantheon of successes we have had in identifying people, places and times. An image of three men at a breakfast table with all the accoutrements for the petit dejeuner and especially a fine, big teapot. I love the piping for the gas light over their heads!
While some have pointed out the "Collins-esque" nature of the chap on the left it is most probable that these are associates of photographer and med student JJ Clarke. It's even plausible that these are his boarding "room mates" at St. Alban's Road in Dublin. The 1901 census shows Clarke boarding with two chaps named William Flynn and Godfrey Ross. (Eminently plausible methinks...)
Photographers: J. J. Clarke
Collection: Clarke Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910
NLI Ref: CLAR45
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags: Clarke Photographic Collection J. J. Clarke John Joseph Clarke 1879 – 1961 Brian P. Clarke – Donor National Library of Ireland Men at breakfast table gas lighting fireplace teapot Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast
There may have been no cup after yesterdays All-Ireland match but there is no shortage of them here! A fine display of pottery and that lovely, old and now rarely used word, "Delph", reminding us of a town in Holland.
With thanks in particular today to everyone, including Niall McAuley, O Mac and beachcomber, there seems to be a solid consensus, supported by circumstantial and documentary evidence, that this Mason image was related to a display at the 1907 Irish International Exhibition. An exhibition we've visited before. Perhaps the most telling clues are the contemporary news article (catalogued by our friends in the National Library of Australia), that beachcomber highlights, and which seems to paraphrase the signage we see in this image, and the contemporary guidebook which sharon.corbet mentions below...
Collection: Mason Photographic Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1890-1910. Most likely c.1907
NLI Ref: M9/14
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags: Thomas Holmes Mason Thomas Mayne Thomas H. Mason & Sons Limited Lantern Slides National Library of Ireland Pots vases cups plates pottery china delph Delft Irish International Exhibition Beleek 'Manufacturers Report' 1907 International Exhibition Dublin International Exhibition Jar Slipware Clay