Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Historic Dublin Pictures & Videos Thread

1679111238

Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Pearse Street 1900

    pearse-street-1900.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Rashers wrote: »
    Pearse Street 1900

    pearse-street-1900.jpg
    Presumably, that building didn't last much longer than 1900 as the Police Station (now Garda Station) must have replaced it prior to independence.


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Presumably, that building didn't last much longer than 1900 as the Police Station (now Garda Station) must have replaced it prior to independence.

    I read of police being based there during the 1913 Lockout and again of at least one policeman having been shot through one of the windows during the Rising in 1916, so the building above must have been seeing it's last days when that picture was taken.

    Dubs had christened that monument in the road too, but the name they used escapes me at the moment.:)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,290 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    I think they called the Crampton Memorial the Cauliflower.
    Here's an interesting one of Westmoreland St about 1950s.

    66949.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    spurious wrote: »
    I think they called the Crampton Memorial the Cauliflower.
    Here's an interesting one of Westmoreland St about 1950s.

    Ahh the Cauliflower... how could it have slipped my mind. Thank you.

    And thank you for the great photo of Westmoreland St. I love a photo that's so full of life like that one is. You can see so much in it... from the Tomb of The Unknown Gurrier on the bridge to the brave souls cycling in the middle of the road, almost claiming their rightful place by ignoring the newer forms of transport.

    I'm going to enjoy looking into this photo. Thank you.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Just found this on youtube,featuring the great Ronny Drew it also has some interesting photos of old Dublin.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T7OaDDR7i8


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    1959 - PTAA rally making it's way from O'Connell Street to Croke Park to celebrate it's diamond jubilee.

    PTAA.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Rashers wrote: »
    Ahh the Cauliflower... how could it have slipped my mind. Thank you.


    It was also called 'The water baby'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Here's an unusual pic for you and it was taken in Dublin in 1988. I'll be impressed if anyone can explain. :)

    Funeral.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Here's an unusual pic for you and it was taken in Dublin in 1988. I'll be impressed if anyone can explain. :)

    A scene from/for a movie?


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Rashers wrote: »
    A scene from/for a movie?
    No!

    It never occurred to me that anyone would think it fictional. It's a real funeral.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    It never occurred to me that anyone would think it fictional. It's a real funeral.


    Right, time for some CSI work me thinks...

    Well, the coffin isn't drapped in a tri-colour & since the war in N.I. is in full swing and we'd a strong republican population in Dublin I'm saying its not an IRA funeral, that of a former 'old' IRA member or indeed any Irish political death.

    I'm kinda stumped because I was in Lebanon with UNIFIL in '88.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    it looks like they're headed for a cliff :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭Bertie Bassett


    I have a feeling I saw that picture before in one of those picture books of Dublin and if I remember correctly it was taken on Lambay Island. Was it the funeral of the owner of Lambay Island?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    I have a feeling I saw that picture before in one of those picture books of Dublin and if I remember correctly it was taken on Lambay Island. Was it the funeral of the owner of Lambay Island?

    Doubt it, the current owner is #
    James Cecil Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke (b. 1938)

    Not that it may not have been taken there, but it wasn't the owner's funeral anwyays


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭Bertie Bassett


    Ste.phen wrote: »
    Doubt it, the current owner is #
    James Cecil Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke (b. 1938)

    I thought it may have been one of the previous owners, but I googled Revelstoke/Lambay and the dates don't tally, but I still think it is Lambay Island.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    I have a feeling I saw that picture before in one of those picture books of Dublin and if I remember correctly it was taken on Lambay Island. Was it the funeral of the owner of Lambay Island?
    Wow - impressive! :)

    Yes. it was the funeral of a Mrs Flynn (I think) on Lambay Island. I'm not sure of the circumstances but presumably she may have been an employee there.

    The Massey Fergusson 135 was probably used as it may have been the only transport vehicle on the island. The funeral service may have been in Rush and the burial on Lambay.

    An acquaintance of mine makes deliveries there - I'll ask him if I see him around.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 Sweet Afton


    1959 - PTAA rally making it's way from O'Connell Street to Croke Park to celebrate it's diamond jubilee.

    Would the begrudgers get such a big turnout today one wonders. Anyway thank youse all for a wonderful collection of images.

    BTW it's "its" which is the possessive pronoun. A useful mnemonic is "It's an apostrophe."


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Going back a bit here. Anyone recognise where and when this is, and what's going on?

    wot.jpg


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    Looks like the bridge at Tara St, but no idea what the context is.
    Could it be during WW2?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,624 ✭✭✭Dancor


    Are they getting ready for a flood?

    The wimmins strugling and the men just walking past. :eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Ste.phen wrote: »
    Looks like the bridge at Tara St.

    Right on. :)
    Could it be during WW2?

    Nope.
    dancor wrote: »
    Are they getting ready for a flood?

    Nope.


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    to me, it looks like ration day but must have been huge rations.

    but its a great photo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85 ✭✭Bertie Bassett


    It wouldn't be during the 1916 Rising would it? The clothes look like that period


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,040 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    During the lockout, bringing supplies to the hungry?


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    It wouldn't be during the 1916 Rising would it? The clothes look like that period

    Yes. In fact just after the surrender.

    There's still some rebel snipers at work (which never seemed to bother the ordinary citizenry anyway) and the soldiers are British, assisting in bringing food and fuel relief to Dublin citizens.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Rashers wrote: »
    Going back a bit here. Anyone recognise where and when this is, and what's going on?

    wot.jpg
    I know that pic. I have it somewhere. You have it heavily cropped AFAIK. I'm heading to the pub and I'll think about it there! :)

    Would the begrudgers get such a big turnout today one wonders. Anyway thank youse all for a wonderful collection of images.

    BTW it's "its" which is the possessive pronoun.
    Thanks for pointing out my little oversight. It's especially appreciated from someone with 2 posts.

    While we are on the subject, it's 'you' not 'youse'. ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    I know that pic. I have it somewhere. You have it heavily cropped AFAIK. I'm heading to the pub and I'll think about it there! :)

    That's the way I got the photo and the explanation I got with it. I'd love to see the un-cropped pic if you have it and any info that goes with it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6 Sweet Afton



    Thanks for pointing out my little oversight. It's especially appreciated from someone with 2 posts.

    While we are on the subject, it's 'you' not 'youse'. ;)

    Ooooh being flayed by a Wishbone. Well it's better than being smote by the jawbone of an ass I suppose.

    As for just two posts you have start somewhere and in regard to the use of the non-standard second-person personal plural pronoun well I used it to show that I am not really a pedantic old bugger. It's just that Apostrophe Man he just hates that little wormy thing thrusting its way in where it's not allowed. Oh yeah.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Wow - impressive! :)

    Yes. it was the funeral of a Mrs Flynn (I think) on Lambay Island. I'm not sure of the circumstances but presumably she may have been an employee there.

    The Massey Fergusson 135 was probably used as it may have been the only transport vehicle on the island. The funeral service may have been in Rush and the burial on Lambay.

    An acquaintance of mine makes deliveries there - I'll ask him if I see him around.
    I was speaking to the aforementioned acquaintance tonight and he confirmed that it was the funeral of a Mrs May Flynn on the 7th of May 1988.

    She was an employee of Cecil and Rupert Baring for over 40 years begining her time as a milkmaid before moving to a housemaid. She was originally from the west of Ireland (Tuam?) and died in a nursing home in south Dublin. Her remains were transported from Rodgerstown Harbour, Rush on 'The Shamrock' with its flag at half mast for service and burial on the island.

    Rupert Baring's funeral occurred under similar circumstances on the island in the mid-1990s.


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    BTW it's "its" which is the possessive pronoun. A useful mnemonic is "It's an apostrophe."
    While we are on the subject, it's 'you' not 'youse'. ;)

    NOOOObody expects the Spanish Inquisition Grammer Police.
    Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as phonetics, pragmatics, ruthless semantics, an almost fanatical devotion to Noam Chomsky, and nice red uniforms!
    :pac:

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Rashers wrote: »
    That's the way I got the photo and the explanation I got with it. I'd love to see the un-cropped pic if you have it and any info that goes with it.
    I've had a quick look but can't find it. I've definitely seen it somewhere in the house. I remember it because the soldier on the right is going over to approach a vehicle or something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    The last tram from the Hill of Howth - 30th May 1958

    HillofHowthTram.jpg


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    The last tram from the Hill of Howth - 30th May 1958

    Thanks for that photo. Brings back memories. I was on it with my father. :)

    We used to use it to visit my sis who had Primary TB and was a patient in Fairy Hill sanatoreum (sp?). Have been looking for Fairy Hill since but it seems to have disappeared.

    Unless someone here know where it is? I'd love a photo of it. :o


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    I've had a quick look but can't find it. I've definitely seen it somewhere in the house. I remember it because the soldier on the right is going over to approach a vehicle or something.

    I love that photo. There's so much in it. The soldier on the left seems to be cautiously looking to see if the coast is clear. And the man walking away behind the soldier on the right... I like to think he's saying, "Sod this for a game of soldiers, I'm going for a pint!"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Rashers wrote: »
    Thanks for that photo. Brings back memories. I was on it with my father. :)
    Great to hear that.
    Rashers wrote:
    We used to use it to visit my sis who had Primary TB and was a patient in Fairy Hill sanatoreum (sp?). Have been looking for Fairy Hill since but it seems to have disappeared.

    Unless someone here know where it is? I'd love a photo of it. :o
    Was it in Howth or on the way to Howth?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    St Mary's Chapel of Ease ('The Black Church') - 1843

    (This pic was taken when photography was in its infancy and must be one of the earliest pictures taken in Dublin. The Church was only built 13 years earlier).

    StMarysChapelofEase.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,808 ✭✭✭Ste.phen


    St Mary's Chapel of Ease ('The Black Church') - 1843

    (This pic was taken when photography was in its infancy and must be one of the earliest pictures taken in Dublin. The Church was only built 13 years earlier).

    StMarysChapelofEase.jpg

    Is that the church facing you as you leave Granby Row heading towards Broadstone/Phibsboro?
    I always wondered how it survived when they put in the railway, it seems out of place and in the way of Western Way, but I suppose if it was only a few years old at the time there wasn't much chance of it coming down :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Great to hear that.

    Was it in Howth or on the way to Howth?

    My memory is pretty vague on where exactly Fairy Hill was, but I remember we seemed to be a long time on the tram from Sutton. I think it was at or near the summit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    watna wrote: »
    Just read this thread from start to finish. It has made me terribly homesick for Dublin! :(

    Me too :( And to think, I couldn't wait to leave the place a year ago.


  • Advertisement
  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,040 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    Wow - impressive! :)

    Yes. it was the funeral of a Mrs Flynn (I think) on Lambay Island. I'm not sure of the circumstances but presumably she may have been an employee there.

    The Massey Fergusson 135 was probably used as it may have been the only transport vehicle on the island. The funeral service may have been in Rush and the burial on Lambay.

    An acquaintance of mine makes deliveries there - I'll ask him if I see him around.


    You know I'm sure there are some pictures of me on the Shamrock in Rogerstown when I was a nipper - must have a look for them then next imte I'm in the folks house. We had a caravan in Portrane, and we'd take my uncles boat across the estuary to rogerstown if the Shamrock was in.

    My dad also scared the life out of us by driving our small boat across the wake of the Shamrock for fun (his, not mine, I couldn't swim so was terrified!) Thanks for bringing up those memories lads :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Ste.phen wrote: »
    Is that the church facing you as you leave Granby Row heading towards Broadstone/Phibsboro?
    That's the one - on St Mary's Place North. It's of architectural significance as it's doesn't have proper walls or a ceiling.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    deswalsh wrote: »
    We had a caravan in Portrane
    Where abouts - in the Burrow or up on Quay Road?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional East Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators, Regional North Mods, Regional West Moderators, Regional South East Moderators, Regional North East Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 8,040 CMod ✭✭✭✭Gaspode


    It was in the Burrow. I loved it there and still prefer to head to Portrane rather than any other beach.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,067 ✭✭✭AnimalRights


    flynnc8 wrote: »
    poor3.jpg


    ha ha, ya dont see crowds like that anymore.....
    Infact they're are more crowds at the church in Dominick street, the Polish community have totally filled out this massive church each and every week!

    Great thread Mairt and where are these Ballymun pics?
    I grew up and lived in Ballymun from '75-96.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,878 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    Great thread Mairt and where are these Ballymun pics?
    I grew up and lived in Ballymun from '75-96.


    Well if someone <Oh I'd love RASHERS on toast right now ;) ) got up off their arse and scanned in photos and old 8mm footage of me and the family growing up on Balcurris Rd there'd be LOADS of deadly pix here!..

    ;)


  • Registered Users Posts: 907 ✭✭✭Rashers


    Mairt wrote: »
    Well if someone <Oh I'd love RASHERS on toast right now ;) ) got up off their arse and scanned in photos and old 8mm footage of me and the family growing up on Balcurris Rd there'd be LOADS of deadly pix here!..

    ;)

    Now ya dont want people seeing ya fall on yer arse off your skateboard, do ya? :D

    The 8mm is transferred to VHS tape. Now if I could figure out how to transfer that VHS tape onto my hard drive and then chop it down to segments that could be uploaded to You Tube, or else grab single frames, we'd have some pics of Ballymun from the '70s....

    ....and even pics of 'people' in their Showaddywaddy get-up. :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Here's a question for you. :)

    This building on Sir John Rodgerson's Quay, (which now houses a kitchen design company), has two much older ornamental keystones placed in its facade. Where did they come from?

    SirJohnRogersonsQuayKeystone2.jpg

    SirJohnRogersonsQuayKeystone1.jpg

    SirJohnRogersonsQuay241108.jpg


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 14,320 CMod ✭✭✭✭The Master


    There from part of O'Connell bridge/Carlisle bridge.

    My father would point them out to me every time we went past


  • Advertisement
  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,027 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    The Master wrote: »
    There from part of O'Connell bridge/Carlisle bridge.

    My father would point them out to me every time we went past
    Indeed - they are 'Anna Livia' and 'Atlantic' - the two keystones from the 1792 bridge which was named after the Lord Lieutenant Frederick Howard, Earl of Carlisle.

    When the trams were introduced, this bridge was considered too steep and it was decided to construct a flatter bridge. This was undertaken by Brindon Blood Stoney, the great engineer of the Dublin Port and Docks. Two new keystones were used with Anna Livia looking up-river and Atlantic facing east. This new bridge opened in 1880.

    (I might have a couple of pictures of the old bridge. I'll have a look).


Advertisement