Category Archives: Irish History

Digitized Photos from The National Library of Ireland

Several collections of digitized photos of Ireland on the National Library of Ireland website – see : Digital Photographs. Their database includes several large collections of photographs, including the Eason postcard collection, images from the Independent Newspaper, Poole collection, and a … Continue reading

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Dublin City Merchants & Traders 1783

Images and searchable transcripts from the alphabetical listing of Merchants and Traders in Wilson’s Dublin Directory of 1783, as included in Samuel Watson’s Gentleman’s and Citizen’s Almanack of 1783 for Dublin. See here Search is possible by surname, trade/occupation, and … Continue reading

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1783 Map of Dublin City

Added – 1783 Map of Dublin City from Watson’s Almanac (see extract below). see : Dublin City 1783

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Wicklow town, Co. Wicklow from Pigot’s Directory of Ireland of 1824

Wicklow town – Pigot’s Directory of Ireland 1824 In the county of the same name, is a small irregularly built seaport, situated 24 miles south south east of Dublin, eight miles north east of Rathdrum, and 16 miles north of … Continue reading

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History of Dundrum and its Castle

from “History of Dublin”, part 2 – 1902 , by F. Elrington Ball (Extract from Parish of Taney) DUNDRUM AND ITS CASTLE Dundrum, or the Fort on the Ridge, which lies to the west of Stillorgan and south-west of Donnybrook, … Continue reading

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