The Irish - Images of a People targeted for Extermination

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This is a thread to try and remember what we once were, and could be again - but only after tremendous struggle against those who are exterminating us.

These fruit and flower sellers were once a feature of Dublin, but have now been replaced by Nigerians.

 

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A young lady waits on O'Connell Bridge. Although it's night time, she feels so safe that she can read a magazine and pay no attention to her surroundings.

 

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Joe Clarke, a Veteran of the 1916 Rising, teaches his grandson to be a proud and patriotic Irishman.

 

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Moore Street - When it was still an Irish street

 

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O'Connell Street lit up for the Eucharistic Congress, 1932.

Young boys keep sketch on the corner of the Adelaide Pharmacy, Harcourt Street, Dublin. 1931.

Bus Áras at Christmas time. 1954.

his is a very early photography of O'Connell Street - or Sackville Street as it was then. It's from about 1860. Notice the statue of O'Connell has yet to be installed - it was not completed until 1880. You will also notice that the bridge is much smaller than the current O'Connell Bridge. The full length of the street is beautifully cobbled.

 

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Construction of O'Connell Bridge as it exists today, with two lanes and as wide as O'Connell Street itself. This photograph is from 1879. Here we are facing south towards D'Olier Street and Westmoreland Street.

A CIÉ carter on Portland Row, Dublin, 1967.

Men laying drainage pipe on corner of Gardiner Street and Dorset Street, Dublin. Year unknown.

O' Connell Street. 1952.

Westmoreland Street. 1951.

 

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Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, before it was demolished and replaced with council flats.

Aston Quay, Dublin.

Winetavern Street leading up to Christchurch. 1950.

Mabbot Street, Dublin. This was the entrance to the infamous Monto, which was one of the largest red light districts in Europe until it was shut down in 1925. "Monto" was short for Montgomery Street - now James Joyce Street to commemorate the famous "Night Town" scene in Ulysses. Here working class Irish girls were sacrificed to the Gods of Capitalism, and to keep the troops of the British Empire feeling they had something for their troubles.

Volunteers of Cumann na mBan take on the might of the British Empire.

Óglach Máire "Molly" Gill, Cumann na mBan Báile Átha Cliath. She was elected President of the GAA in 1923, and was a leading figure in Camogie until her death in 1977.

 

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Michael Collins and Harry Boland were life long friends and Comrades in Arms. Tragically, they were both to die on opposite sides of the Civil War.

Micheal Collins and his Comrades enjoy a hurling match.

Passing on a sup of tradition in the 1950s

Cassidy's Tower Bar, 33 Henry St, Dublin. The original building is from the late 1700s.

Grafton Street, Dublin. Early 1900s.

 

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The view from Henry Street, Dublin, after the shelling of the GPO, Easter 1916.

College Green, Dublin, 1900.

Moore Street, Dublin, 1946.

South Great Georges Street, Dublin, 1965.

I love the photographs of Dublin from the 1950s. Dublin was still beautiful and photography had reached its zenith of technique. He we see Grafton Street - with its iconic Switzer's shop.

Celery's, O'Connell Street.

A street in Dublin, 1916. Girls selling Shamrock for St. Patrick's Day.

 

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These images were taken by two french ladies in 1913. They were commissioned to photograph Ireland by French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn.

He sent photographers to many countries to document the (by now dying) traditional cultures of each country. The photographs were taken using an early colour process and these are thought to be the first colour images taken in Ireland.

Claddagh Girl

 

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Cartier Bresson, considered one of the greatest photographers of all time, visited Ireland in 1952. Such a pity these pictures are not more widely available.

Corpus Christie procession, Dublin

County Kerry 1952 Cartier Bresson

Corpus Christie again

Galway?

Farmers stack hay on their farm in County Cork - 1927.

A family stands outside their cottage in county Cork, Ireland, 1927.

Two fishermen take a break in Spidéal, Galway, 1913.
The boy is dressed in a skirt; a common safeguard against the fairy-kind.

 

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Mother and children drawing water from a holy well in northern Ireland, 1888.

 

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Farmers stack hay on their farm in County Cork - 1927.

family stands outside their cottage in county Cork, Ireland, 1927.

Two fishermen take a break in Spidéal, Galway, 1913.

 

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Steam-powered barges carrying barrels of stout in Dublin in February 1911

Moore Street in March 1946

Trinity College in 1920

Houses in Dublin destroyed by German bombs in World War II in January 1941

 

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Irish troops march through Dublin in July 1960 prior to leaving for the Congo

Refugees leaving Balbriggan in north County Dublin after the Siege of Balbriggan by the Black and Tans in 1920

Dame Street in 1900

Crowds at the Dublin Horse Show in August 1912

 

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Galway 1902

1904 - Irish Cottage

his very rare photo shows a famine survivor whose peers were practically wiped out by starvation and disease.
The incredible snap was taken in 1853 by photographer John Gregory Crace on the estate of the Duke of Devonshire in Co Waterford.

An eviction in the 1880s. The bailiff has put the family's few bits of furniture out on the road and nailed boards across the door. Irish Patriot Martyrs shed their sacred blood to make sure that Irish families would never have to suffer eviction again - but we are nearly back to where we were in the 1880s, as thousands of Irish families against face the bailiff and being caste out onto the side of the road.

 

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Rural Electrification, 1946.

Bus Áras

Loading the Kilkenny Bus at Aston Quay, 1947. Before Bus Áras opened.

The 16A to Drumcondra, 1965.

A CIE horse and dray delivers parcels in Cork City in the 1960s.

A CIE inspector braves the rain.

 

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Finglas Village in the 1970s. Now covered in dirty big apartment blocks for immigrants.

Ah, the days when you could park your car for free outside the Savoy on O'Connell Street.

Grafton Street, Dublin. 1890.

Galway children in the 1930s.

Kilmainham Jail Dublin 1848.

Derry men walk their hounds in 1955.