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FADÓ FADÓ: IRISH Memory is a blog filled with information on what our great nation was like in days gone by.
With old ads, maps and images of Ireland and Irish life over the last few centuries, it will certainly give you an idea of where we’ve come from as a people.
The latest post includes postcards of Ireland from the 1890s-1980s, and they are a sight to behold.
Here are seven of them, you can see lots more on the site itself.
Grand Parade, Cork, around 1910s or 1920s
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Leenane, Connemara, in the 1950s
O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, in the 1960s
Spanish Arch, Galway, in the 1960s
Tralee, Co. Kerry in the mid-1960s
The Promenade, Donaghadee, County Down, around 1890-1900
Thursday 26 December, 2024
Thursday 26 December, 2024
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Postcards of Ireland from the last 100 years are a thing of beauty
FADÓ FADÓ: IRISH Memory is a blog filled with information on what our great nation was like in days gone by.
With old ads, maps and images of Ireland and Irish life over the last few centuries, it will certainly give you an idea of where we’ve come from as a people.
The latest post includes postcards of Ireland from the 1890s-1980s, and they are a sight to behold.
Here are seven of them, you can see lots more on the site itself.
Grand Parade, Cork, around 1910s or 1920s
Leenane, Connemara, in the 1950s
O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, in the 1960s
Spanish Arch, Galway, in the 1960s
Tralee, Co. Kerry in the mid-1960s
The Promenade, Donaghadee, County Down, around 1890-1900
College Green, Dublin, in the mid-1960s
All images via irishmemory.blogspot.ie.
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