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Padraig Pearse giving the oration at the grave of O Donovan Rossa August 1915
February 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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Remembering Ann Lovett who died #Onthisday 1984 www.dib.ie/biography/lo...
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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Yesterday's #WhereinCork was the Fire Station, Sullivan's Quay, now Quay Coop #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday
January 29, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Died #Onthisday 1943 Mary Somerville Parker Strangman #Waterford's 1st female doctor & councillor. In 1891 she & her sister Lucia entered the RCSI, the 1st medical school in the UK to admit women on equal terms with men B&W📸NLI waterford.fyi/did-you-know...
January 30, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Lissadell House Co Sligo the home of the Gore - Booth family.
February 2, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Happy Saint Brigids Day
February 1, 2026 at 10:22 AM
The Nuns graveyard in Nano Nagle Place (The South Convent) Douglas Street.
January 31, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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This is the Silver Key #Cork - not sure of the date, maybe the late 70s? #FlashbackFriday #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike 📸Mary McCoy
January 30, 2026 at 8:01 AM
A view over Cork City from what is now Gurranabraher it was countryside then long before the house were built and the area became a suburb on the Northside of the City
January 26, 2026 at 12:57 PM
The rag fair Patrick Street Dublin 1903 eventually these Street sellers moved indoors to the Iveagh Market on Francis Street.
January 21, 2026 at 9:33 PM
The Four Courts
January 21, 2026 at 11:43 AM
I would call this paradise with all the books.
January 21, 2026 at 10:16 AM
The Long Valley on Wintrop Street many years ago.
January 18, 2026 at 2:27 PM
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Have a look at this! K.H
Irish Writer Edna O’Brien interview, 1976
YouTube video by CR's Video Vaults
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January 14, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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Yesterday's #WhereinCork was Mardyke Walk in 1806 from John Carr’s ‘The stranger in Ireland'. This is much later from c.1900 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸LOC www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation
January 15, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Died #Onthisday 1934 Annie Patterson, 'UCC’s first female music lecturer and the first woman in Ireland or Britain to be awarded a non-honorary doctorate in music.' www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Remembering Annie Patterson, the trailblazer who was UCC's first female music lecturer
As the anniversary of Dr Annie Patterson's death approaches, Pet O'Connell recalls the life of the incredible woman who also was instrumental in the creation of the Feis Ceoil and Oireachtas na…
www.irishexaminer.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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The grotto Blackpool #Cork c1945 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday
📷Jim Donahue
January 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Ruth O Riada
January 15, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Sean O Riada , Sean O Se , Niall Tobin , Eamon De Valera and Ruth O Riada. Sean O Se passed away earlier today.
January 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
St Ledgers Pope's Quay Cork
January 11, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Ida Lahiff at her sweet stall in the Iveagh Market Francis Street Dublin. The Market is long gone.
January 11, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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A prominent cultural figure in post-war Dublin, John Ryan (b. #OTD 1925)owned the Bailey on Duke St. Frequented by writers & artists, the establishment became renowned for its connections with a motley group of writers including Brendan Behan & Anthony Cronin. www.dib.ie/biography/ry... #DIBLives
February 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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#NollaignamBan
The first woman admitted to the all-male Royal Astronomical Society, Agnes Mary Clerke's analyses were so reliable, thoughtful & wide reaching that she became a revered authority. The Clerke lunar crater was named to commemorate her. www.dib.ie/biography/cl... #DIBLives
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
A wagonette and side cars at the junction of Quaker Road and Summerhill South heading to Glenbower woods Killeagh. These trips were organised by Babe Ann Keane who sold on the Coal Quay and the English Market in later years she lived on Evergreen Road.
January 11, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Barrington's Folly close to the Atlantic Pond Cork City restoration work is beginning
January 11, 2026 at 2:13 PM