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Free State roof tiles

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  • 11-08-2014 7:55pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭


    there's a thread title you don't see every day!
    My brother was working on a house renovation in Cabra (north Dublin) where they had to replace some of the roof. These are the original tiles:
    [IMG][/img]DSC_0018_zps91d492f2.jpg
    DSC_0020_zpsdf0ddf16.jpg

    I have googled "Defiance roof tiles" and the only link is somebody selling a yard full of them! Would anybody know where the tiles were made and point to any relevant history related to this. Coincidentally I recently found a brown glass bottle with the Saorstat Eireann logo so obviously there were some attempts to increase industrial activity during this era. Any info gratefully received.....


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  • Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    The forerunner of the Guaranteed Irish label. Also they had a logo on some products that looked like a Gaelic font 'E' with 'Deanta In Eireann' on it.

    D%C3%A9anta_i_nEireann.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Cool!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,798 ✭✭✭goose2005


    Also the old SÉ postboxes

    PostBox-SaorstatEireann-Wide.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Excellent! Any more SE branded products out there?


  • Registered Users Posts: 15,731 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


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  • Registered Users Posts: 9,019 ✭✭✭davycc


    ;)wernt some of our coins from the 20s and maybe 30s free state also


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Several potential directions for this thread. E.g the use of
    - Saorstat Eireann as a simple ‘emblem’ e.g. on letterboxes/coinage/etc.,
    - Saorstat Eireann as a mark of ‘defiance’ under the Economic War with Britain (like the rooftiles, an early Deanta i n- Eirinn / ‘Buy Irish’ campaign.) Protectionism, quotas/Irish content, labour quotas, etc.
    - Saorstat Eireann – role in its early days in developing an indigenous industry* particularly under Lemass, who was elected and became Minister for Industry & Commerce in 1932.
    *In no particular order - ESB, Irish Sugar, Irish Shipping, Insurance Corporation of Ireland, Agricultural and Industrial Credit Corporations, even up to the nationalization of B&I Line in mid 1960’s)


  • Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    Good stuff Pedro, I'll follow up on those pointers. Already seeing ads online for SE memorabilia!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,284 ✭✭✭dubhthach


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    It's a pity that Percy Metcalfe original design for the Bull wasn't carried through on the Shilling. Alot more "dynamic" piece:

    metcalfe1.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Ca bfhuil an dreoilin, an bradan agus an giorria?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 772 ✭✭✭baaba maal


    dubhthach wrote: »
    J01015X4.JPG

    It's a pity that Percy Metcalfe original design for the Bull wasn't carried through on the Shilling. Alot more "dynamic" piece:

    metcalfe1.jpg

    Indeed! I always thought it said something about "us" as a nation that we chose a much tamer version of the bull. Although that might be just idle speculation on my part.


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