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Vintage Irish Cycling Photos

  • 14-11-2009 11:30pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭


    I've been doing some research in the National Library and was looking at their photographic archives. They have some nice shots of people with bikes so I thought I'd share them. Feel free to add more vintage Irish shots to the thread if you have them.


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    Race, 1901

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    Race, starting, 1901

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    Waterpark Sports, bicycle race, [Waterford] May 30th, 1910


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    Waterpark College, group of boys with bicycles, [Waterford] 16 June 1910

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    Aonach Tailteann Athletics, somewhere between 1912 and 1936

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    Cyclists group.per Mr Humphrey. [Waterford] 1 June 1914


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    Bicycle Club members at Courthouse, Waterford. Somewhere between 1890 and 1910.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    Part Two:



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    Nurse standing with cyclist, somewhere between 1897 and 1904


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    Two ladies with bicycles at Kingstown, somewhere between 1890 and 1910


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    Woman with bicycle, somewhere between 1890 and 1910


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    Two women walking past Rudge-Whitworth Cycles, 1 Stephen's Green North, somewhere between 1890 and 1910


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    Man in uniform with bike, somewhere between 1890 and 1910


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    Man wearing hat, cycling bike on cobbled street, somewhere between 1890 and 1910


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    Woman wheeling bicycle at roadside, somewhere between 1890 and 1910


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    Phoenix Park, Dublin, somewhere between 1880 and 1914


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    Mr Keane, City, group with bicycles & prizes, [Henrietta Street, Waterford] 4 July 1909


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    Mr Keane, on bicycles, (south eastern wheelers), [Henrietta Street, Waterford] 4 July 1909


  • Registered Users Posts: 302 ✭✭steinone




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭bcmf


    my father in law was a distuinguished racer in his day and may have some foto's lying around. certainly there are some medals and stuff.If I dig them I will let you know.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 Convict


    Thanks very much for those - all that time and so little change. The Phoenix Park is still much the same. There's a poem that says 'after two thousand years of mass we've got as far as poisoined gas'. I think it was written around the time of those photos or after 1914 certainly. Imagine - imagining carbon back then?
    Try www.kennellyarchive.com/ - as a search put in Ras. His photographs are stunning.
    Oh yes and what are you researching?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 385 ✭✭emty


    Great photo's all round,thanks a lot :).

    @Bunnyhopper,how do you go about getting a copy of these,wouldn't mind trying to frame one of them to see what it would look like.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    @emty There's a section ("Photographic Prints") on ordering prints or digital files on this page:

    http://www.nli.ie/en/copying-services.aspx

    Some of the original images are quite small so you might want to check with them how big an enlargement could go. The prices aren't outrageous though.

    @Convict Thanks for the Kennelly link, there's some good stuff there. I'm (supposed to be) looking for images of Joycean Dublin, but I keep getting distracted by pictures of bikes :)

    @bcmf It'd be great to see those if you can find them. There's probably a lot of material out there so it would be good to have somewhere to gather it all together. The bicycle polo page that @steinone links to (thanks) has lots more images.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,453 ✭✭✭showry


    There's quite a few old cycling photos on http://www.waterfordcountyimages.org/exhibit/web
    You can search for cycling under the Sports and Transport subjects


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    A few from the Waterford County Museum site

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    Waterford Cycling Club At Curraghmore House, ca 1910

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    The Dungarvan Ramblers Cycling Club, ca 1900

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    Four Mile Bicycle Race Cup, 1900

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    Four Mile Bicycle Race Cup, ca 1900

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    Unidentified Boy With Bicycle, ca 1900

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    Cycling Post Card, ca 1910

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    Meehan Girls Going On Picnic, ca 1955

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    Pony And Trap At Duckspool House, Abbeyside, June 1943

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    Donal Moloney, Grattan Square, Dungarvan, 1945

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    Chavasse Children With Bicycles At Whitfield Court, Kilmeaden, ca 1900

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    Chavasse Boys With Bicycles At Whitfield Court, Kilmeaden, ca 1900

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    Edmond Keohan And Daughters, ca 1915


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    Part Two

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    Employees Of Dungarvan Post Office, 1930

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    Willie Duggan, Dungarvan Postman, ca 1940

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    Michael & Pat Tobin, Shandon Street, Dungarvan, ca 1950

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    Mary Tobin & Molly Mulcahy, Shandon, Dungarvan, ca 1950

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    A Man & Woman With A Bicycle At Comeragh House, ca 1900

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    Main Street Ardmore Village, 1910

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    Bicycle Race At The Gaelic Field [Shandon, Dungarvan], ca 1902

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    Garda Sergeant Dan Begley [Tramore Strand], ca 1950

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    Eddie Dee & John Moore Outside Coolnagour Dairy, ca 1950

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    Ballinacourty Coast Guard Station, ca 1902

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    Dungarvan Court House, ca 1902

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    Drohan’s Forge Abbeyside, ca 1902


  • Registered Users Posts: 984 ✭✭✭rflynnr


    Fascinating stuff. The photos nicely illustrate the changing of the guard (bicycle design-wise) that took place over the course of the 1880s and 1890s. When the safety bike (i.e. a bike with front and rear wheels of identical dimensions) was introduced c. 1885, boy-racers of the "ordinary" (penny- farthing) variety dismissed them as for women and old men. Only when it became clear that safety bikes equipped with pneumatic tyres were routinely recording faster times than the "ordinaries" did a mass transition to the safety occur. The aptly named Dutch academic Weibe Bijker has a fascinating chapter on this in "Of Bicycles, Bakelite and Light Bulbs".


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  • Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭mmclo




  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    mmclo wrote: »

    Is that the big fella?

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭CheGuedara


    There's a load of old cycling (Ras Tailteann, Lacey & Drumm Cup mostly) and cycling related photos on the Kennelly Archive website also. Way too many to put photos up


  • Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭mmclo


    jerseyeire wrote: »
    Is that the big fella?

    tis to be shure


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭Ghost Rider


    These are great. What are you researching, Bunnyhopper?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭Doctor Bob


    Got this for christmas last year:

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    Robert L. Chapman's Ireland, compiled by Christiaan Corlett.

    Plenty of cycling photos in there. Pretty sure it was only published last year, so it should still be in print.

    The Royal Irish Academy on Dawson Street (in Dublin) holds the Chapman Archive. I'd imagine they have more photos than are included in the book.

    Great thread, btw!


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,035 ✭✭✭coolbeans


    Really wonderful, and again thank you for the post. Just to reiterate the utterings of another poster, what indeed, are you researching?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    I'm working on a cataloguing project and I started out looking for images of Joycean Dublin, so basically Dublin street scenes and the like from roughly 1900-1910, but once I got going through the online photo archives I kept getting distracted by the cycling pictures. Sporting and social history is really not my area but I might have to try and figure out some way to justify looking for more bike pictures :)

    @rflynnr That's a good point - I wish some of the images had more specific dates on them. I might have to get the Bijker book now. Is it a good read beyond just the bicycles chapter? (I just looked and that Brian Griffin book cites Bijker.)

    A few more:

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    Young girl riding a tricycle along a seafront, 1890-1910


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    Group of cyclists, Killarney, Co. Kerry, 1930-1950


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    Mr. T. Doyle, Yoletown Roller Mills, New Ross with penny farthing cycle, 1880-1900


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭CheGuedara



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    Group of cyclists, Killarney, Co. Kerry, 1930-1950

    Entirely possible one of my grandfathers is in that photo!

    (amazed road is still essentially identical today too!)


  • Registered Users Posts: 200 ✭✭Piercemeear



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    Group of cyclists, Killarney, Co. Kerry, 1930-1950
    CheGuedara wrote: »
    Entirely possible one of my grandfathers is in that photo!

    (amazed road is still essentially identical today too!)

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    The closest two I could find on Flickr.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 435 ✭✭mmclo


    One thing noticeable about photos from that era is the sheer volume of cyclists in urban areas, I've seen one of the five lamps with about 10 cyclists in it and it was just a normal day, also any of those famous O'Connell (Sackville) St ones show similar as does old films


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    mmclo wrote: »
    One thing noticeable about photos from that era is the sheer volume of cyclists in urban areas, I've seen one of the five lamps with about 10 cyclists in it and it was just a normal day, also any of those famous O'Connell (Sackville) St ones show similar as does old films

    :)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


    I don't think there are any reposts here. This may has become this week's minor obsession... :rolleyes:

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    Amalgamation group of bicycle club, 1890-1910

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    Royal Irish Constabulary group in uniform, Courthouse, Co. Waterford , 1890-1900

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    Waterford Bicycle Club members & ladies, 1890-1910

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    Royal Irish Constabulary group & Mr. W. Gamble, 1890-1900

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    Royal Irish Constabulary group & Mr. W. Gamble, 1890-1900

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    Royal Irish Constabulary group, Waterford, 1890-1910

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    Royal Irish Constabulary committee, Waterford, 1890-1900

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    Royal Irish Constabulary group in uniform, Courthouse, Waterford, 1890-1900

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    Waterford Bicycle club, 1900-1910

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    [House of Mrs Bridget Kelly, Lisvalley Vesey, near Tuam, Co.Galway ], 1906-1914


    Waterford Bicycle Club was one of the earliest, which may explain why there are so many old photos of them. It was founded in January 1880, according to Brian Griffin.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    It looks like all those photos were taken in Movember :D

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Bunnyhopper


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    Sir James Talot Power's velocipede
    (I think this is in the Jameson's Museum. The photo is by Dissonancefalling on Flickr)

    Also on Flickr, Chris531 has lots of interesting pictures of old bikes. He has 1930s and 1950s bikes, but also some more recent ones. He also has some very nice Mercians.

    This one catches the eye - good way to deter aggressive bus drivers on the N11 maybe...

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    Irish Army issue BSA


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,431 ✭✭✭zzzzzzzz


    Doctor Bob wrote: »
    Got this for christmas last year:

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    Robert L. Chapman's Ireland, compiled by Christiaan Corlett.

    Plenty of cycling photos in there. Pretty sure it was only published last year, so it should still be in print.

    The Royal Irish Academy on Dawson Street (in Dublin) holds the Chapman Archive. I'd imagine they have more photos than are included in the book.

    Great thread, btw!

    Just got a copy of this book. Some great photos in there alright and his diary entries are really interesting.

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    "cycling in snow at glencree"
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Greenman


    Don't you just love those trikes!!!.

    Greetings from a trike mad cyclist.:):):)


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  • Registered Users Posts: 537 ✭✭✭velopeloton


    Not sure this is vintage.
    It is me on my first bike in 1971. I was a pioneer of cycling in sandals.
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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Greenman


    Not sure this is vintage.
    It is me on my first bike trike in 1971. I was a pioneer of cycling in sandals.
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    Not sure this is vintage.
    It is me on my first bike trike in 1971. I was a pioneer of cycling in sandals.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 14,317 ✭✭✭✭Raam



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    Mr. T. Doyle, Yoletown Roller Mills, New Ross with penny farthing cycle, 1880-1900

    Hmm, that could possibly be a relation of mine.


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