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We sell historical, archived images from every day Irish life as well as significant events in the country’s history.
We sell historical, archived images from every day Irish life as well as significant events in the country’s history.
From an archive of over 3.5 million images you can see the many significant characters that visited Ireland over the years. Have a look and enjoy!
Monday, 23 April 2012
Emer Woods finds old image of her Grandad!
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Donal Moore - the very helpful Waterford City Archivist!
Hi Tara,
Just saw
the article on your project in the latest Heritage Council newsletter &
went browsing. Along the
way I spotted something in negative A474/98508-09869
The “Kilkenny
Hurler” in the centre of the photo (holding his hurley horizontally) is
an interloper!! He is in fact an well-known English actor, John Gregson, who was given
special permission to take part in the parade as part of a feature film
called “Rooney” (based on a novel by Catherine Cookson).
The parade then features in the film.
Hope that
this is of some use.
Donal Moore
,
Waterford City
Archivist
I received this email
yesterday from Donal. I just love when
people email to inform me of a mistake made in our captioning or to give me a
little bit more information!
They are seldom as
interesting as this one though! How cool that
this ‘Kilkenny Player’ from the 1957 All Ireland Senior
Hurling Championship Final (Waterford vs. Kilkenny) is actually the actor John Gregson! Love even more that his hurley is
so sparkly and new - not that I had noticed it as odd until Donal brought this image to my attention!
Thanks Donal!
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