Irish Collection (page 23)

On the way to Valentia - A welcome from local peasant girls
The Royal Visit to Ireland - On the way to Valentia - A welcome from local peasant girls. Date: 1897

Comic postcard, Drunken man on his way home, playing the railings like a harp Date: 20th century

Good Luck postcard, Royal Irish Guards, WW1. Bonne Chance Pour Toi, Mon Garcon. Date: 1914-1918

Comic postcard, British soldier on sentry duty in the cold, WW1 Date: circa 1918

The Guinness Brewery, St Jamess Gate, Dublin, Republic of Ireland, circa 1946. Date: circa 1946

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - Two to One
During the war the Government chose to see sports betting as Entertainment and despite an early decline in gambling, options for punters like the football pools

Proclamation against Sinn Fein in Dublin. A group outside its headquarters in Harcourt Street

Prime Minister Asquith - Commons Home Rule Bill debate
Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928), replying to Mr Walter Longs Amendment Speech in the House of Commons, declaring that it would be disasterous to proceed with the Home Rule Bill

Homecoming of martyred Dublin officers: Londons tribute to victims of Sinn Fein murderers. Date: 1920

Grove Hill, Camberwell
View of Dr Lettsoms house. John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815) was an English physician and philanthropist born on Little Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands into an early Quaker settlements

Sir Richard Steeles House
View of Sir Richard Steeles house on Haverstock Hill, London. Sir Richard Steele (1672-1729) was an Irish writer, playwright, and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison

Home Rule Bill of 1912
John Redmond (1856 - 1918), leader of the Irish party, claiming home bill for Ireland. Declaring that " The bill will establish in Ireland a Parliament with power to deal with purely Irish

Crowd in Dublin being fired upon without orders by men of the Kings Own Scottish Borderers. The incident had taken place after gun-running by the Irish National Volunteers at Howth

Richard Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (1751-1816), an Irish satirist, a playwright, poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

Trades in Regency Ireland: bleaching, Irish cabin and salmon leap. Workers bleaching linen made from flax in Colerain 76, poor Irish potato farmers outside a cottage with pigs and dogs 77

King George IVs royal parade through Dublin, 1821
King George IV of England riding a carriage in a royal parade through Dublin, 1821. Accompanied by Irish gentlemen, lancers, soldiers, bishops and aldermen. Going to the Levee

Irish gentlemen drinking punch at a committee meeting to discuss a pillar to commemorate King George IVs visit to Ireland. A pillar committee

Irish gentlemen going to see King George IV in Dublin
Three Irish gentlemen on a one-horse carriage to visit King George IV in Dublin. Captain Grammachree playing Paddy Whack on his Wooden leg-fife to amuse the car party on their journey to meet

King George IV of England arriving in Ireland, 1821
King George IV of England arriving for his tour of Ireland, August 12, 1821. Irish peasants raise their hats and cheer. His Majesty landing on the Pier at Howth

A jingle or carriage accident on a bridge in Dublin, 1822
A jingle or carriage accident on Low Ground Bridge, Baggot Street, Dublin. Passengers fall off the bridge into the canal, men with shillelaghs shout. Brian Boru, Sir Shawn O Dogherty, Capt

Gentleman crashing a carriage in a Belfast street, 1822
Brian Boru in top hat and cockle-picker Peg O Shambles crashing a two-horse carriage in a Belfast street, 1822. Hawkers knocked on the street, urchins eating potatoes, a man with shillelagh

Irish gentleman in his cell, Dublin prison, 1821
Irish gentleman in his cell with other inmates, Dublin prison, 1821. Captain Blake introduces a ragged exciseman. Sheriffs Prison - Introducing Swan the Exciseman

Irish gentlemen fighting a duel with pistols, Dublin, 1821
Irish gentleman Brian Boru and Naval officer Tarpaulin fighting a duel with pistols, Dublin, 1821. Seconds and members of the Duelling Society of Dublin attending

Irish gentlemen descend into an underground hostel, 1821
Irish gentlemen descend into an underground hostel near Dirty Lane, Dublin, with beds and cheap victuals. Adventures in a Snoozing Cellar

Irish gentleman riding a cow in a rowboat on the canal in Dublin. Brian Boru Esq. proclaim d the winner of the Boat-race for a Cow

An audience rioting in the stalls in a Dublin theatre, 1821. Our Hero and his friends having a small taste of a Row at the Theatre

Irish gentlemen slumming it in a barnyard shebeen, Dublin. Peg-leg officer falls among pigs, geese and potatoes. Disagreeable Adventures of Brian Boru

Army officers performing the Wetting the Commission ritual
Army officers performing a ritual commission ceremony. An officer wets a document in a bowl of punch with a sword at the Elephant and Castle pub. Wetting an Irish Commission

King George IV leaving Dun Laoghaire after his royal tour, September 3, 1821. Departure of the King & unconsolable grief of the Hibernians

Frontispiece with vignettes and medallions. Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by William Heath from Pierce Egans Real Life in Ireland, or the Day and Night Scenes, Rovings, Rambles

Victorian tourists wading through dung on a farm looking for a rustic sight on their tour. The grotto and waterfall is just a barn. Ducks attack a child, a gentleman gets stuck in the mud

Woman in evening gown of ash blue satin with Irish lace. Manteau du soir en satin bleu cendre avec garnitures d Irlande. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil)

Woman in burgundy satin skirt and black satin jacket
Woman in burgundy satin skirt, black satin jacket tied with blue velvet bows. Jupe de satin bordeaux, casaque de satin noir, noeuds de velours bleu

Christmas Truce Memorial, Peace Village, Messines
The memorial carries the words A Lull in the Hate and refers to the football match played between the Germans and the British at Christmas 1914

Memorial to Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, Artillery Wood
The memorial, mounted on a brick plinth, carries a photo of the poet. Beside it the Irish flag flies, there is an information board and behind is an apple tree planted in his memory on 27 March 2010

Catherine Kitty Brigid Kiernan (1893-1945), pictured at home after the announcement of her engagement to Irish revolutionary leader and Chairman of the Provisional Government, Michael Collins

Brigadier-General Arthur Corrie Lewin, pictured at the first air pageant organised by the Irish Aero Club at Baldonnel Free State Army aerodrome, where he flew a Gipsy Moth. Date: 1931

Lady Eliza Deane at Dundanion, 1847
Lady Eliza Deane commencing, at Dundanion, the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway. Date: 1847

Cartoon, The Three Graces -- A New Version (Queen Victoria)
Cartoon, The Three Graces -- A New Version. England, Scotland and Ireland, represented by three female figures posing as the classical Three Graces, hold a diminutive figure of Queen Victoria

Cartoon, Swift on a Large Scale (Gladstone)
Cartoon, Swift on a Large Scale -- a comment on Gladstones assigning the surplus from Irish Church endowments (resulting from the disestablishment of the Irish Church) for humanitarian purposes

Cartoon, Our Siamese Twins (English and Irish Churches)
Cartoon, Our Siamese Twins -- a satirical comment on Gladstones Irish Church Suspensory Bill, which was carried against the Conservative government by a large majority in 1868

Cartoon, Don t Touch the Queen (Irish Church)
Cartoon, Don t Touch the Queen -- a satirical comment on Gladstones Irish Church Suspensory Bill, which was carried against the Conservative government by a large majority

Cartoon, Natural Allies (Irish Republic and Abyssinia)
Cartoon, Natural Allies -- a satirical comment on two of Britains enemies, Abyssinia and the Irish Republic, being natural allies to each other

Cartoon, Ben and his Bogey (Disraeli)
Cartoon, Ben and his Bogey -- a satirical comment on Disraelis speech to his Buckinghamshire electors, suggesting that the Roman Catholic Church will be the only organisation to gain from

Cartoon, Don t You Smell Fire? (Mr and Mrs Bull)
Cartoon, Don t You Smell Fire? Mrs Britannia Bull tells her husband John that he should investigate a nasty smell of something smouldering -- smoke can be seen on the right

Cartoon, John Bull among the Lilliputians -- a satirical political comment on relationships between Great Britain and other countries, with suggestions of exploitation. Date: 1847

Miss Adela Maddison, composer of new opera
Page from The Sketch featuring a portrait of Adela Maddison, Irish composer of a new opera, The Talisman, which was performed at Leipzig on 19 November 1910. Date: 1910

Cartoon, Rebecca and Her Daughters. A parody of an illustration which appeared in the Illustrated London News in February of the same year

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