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 sellection of Stereo Pair photographs – i.e. in 3D with an appropriate viewer.

Three galleries of photos from the National Library via the Google Cultural Institute :

  Witness to War on the Irish War of Independence & Civil War.

  Dubliners, The Photographs of J.J. Clarke on James Joyce’s Dublin

  Power and Privilege, The Big House in Ireland on Irish Country Houses

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Maps Update

Started conversion of the interface used for the historic maps on this website, and upgrading these to Google’s Version 3 API code. These should function as before with regard to scrolling/panning zooming etc, but should be crisper in operation and more reliable.

Maps upgraded so far include those for Damage to Dublin city after the 1916 Rising, and the 1783, 1848, 1912 and 1935 Dublin city.

see : 1916 Map, Dublin City maps

Updated Complete (2nd November 2013) remainder of the Dublin City maps have been upgraded and also the County Dublin and Ireland maps

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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

Sample image from Merchants and Traders in Watson's 1783 Almanac

Sample image from Merchants and Traders in Watson’s 1783 Almanac

Search is possible by surname, trade/occupation, and street name. This data also allows street listings, and listings by occupation. (see sample results by surname, trade and street in image below)

Watson Directory 1783 Samples

Updated 30th Oct 2013 – OCR, Transcription and Classification of Merchants and Traders completed.

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Dublin City Street Index 1783

Added images for a Dublin City street index from 1783 which references the recently added map.

see : 1783 Street Index

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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

Extract from 1783 Map of Dublin City from Watson's Almanac

Extract from 1783 Map of Dublin City from Watson’s Almanac

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