Showing 2102 results

From Police to Military: "Please pass bearer P.H. McCarthy Beechfield, Bray through streets of City +DMP area daily.
Patrick Hartnett McCarthy was permitted by this pass to travel from his home, Beechfield, on Novara Avenue in Bray, to his offices in Dublin. A consulting engineer at P.H. McCarthy and Sons, he would later be the consulting engineer on the board of the Ardnacrusha project for the Cosgrave government.

2½p black and white stamp with image of 1916 rebel, a man with a rifle, outside the GPO “‘... In ainm Dé agus in ainm na glún D’imig Rómainn ...’ Forógra 1916’

'Dublin After the Six Days Insurrection'- Commemorative Picture Booklet of the 1916 Rising

A ball invitation to Captain L. Heuson M.V.O to meet the Lord Lieutenant and Countess of Aberdeen on Wednesday 18 June 1913 in the Pavilion, Kingstown. (Present day Dún Laoghaire)

John Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland briefly in 1886 before returning to the post for a nine-year spell after five years as Governor General of Canada. The Countess of Aberdeen, Isobel Hamilton-Gordon, also left her mark, serving as president of the International Council of Women as well as founding the Victorian Order of Nurses. This invitation was sent to Captain Lionel Lloyd Hewson, a Member of the Royal Victorian Order.

Etching of Leinster Market (Off D'Olier St) by Estella Solomons HRHA, signed and dated 1913.

Many Dubliners lived in the sort of tenements depicted in this 1913 etching by Estella Solomons. Solomons was, like Harry Kernoff, Jewish. Her brother, Bethel, was master of the Rotunda Hospital. Estella studied art under Walter Osborne and William Orpen, and later married Seamus O’Sullivan, with whom she produced the Dublin Magazine for 35 years.