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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 8h

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was Featherbed Lane which ran down through today's Longs Yard, and was then crossed by Kitlings Lane. The entrance to Featherbed Lane from Barrack Street (pictured here in 1987) still survives #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 8h

Died #Onthisday 1943, the fascinating #Wexford born Kathleen A. Browne, agriculturist, writer, and politician & imprisoned for a short time in Wexford jail for flying the tricolour over Rathronan Castle during Easter week www.dib.ie/biography/br...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 1d

#WhereinCork would you have found this scene in 1928 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 2d

#Onthisday 2001 Disco Pigs had its premiere @CorkFilmFest
- the movie includes some great shots of #Cork including this one on the left from Riverstown #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike youtu.be/MSix-Bpa_vg

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 3d

Patrick St then (1950s) and now (2021) #TimewarpCork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #TimewarpCork B&W📸via #Cork Past & Present www.irishfamilydetective.ie/timewarp

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 3d

Died #Onthisday 1957 the fascinating Helen Laird, actress, costumier, teacher, & suffragist. With Maud Gonne she helped form the Ladies’ School Dinners Committee feeding children from #Dublin's poorest schools & She worked with the Save the Children Fund for thirty years

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 4d

Patrick Street #Cork c.1900 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸via NLI www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 5d

Rebuilding Patrick Street #Cork after the burning of the city by Crown Forces in December 1920 - New York House before & the rebuild at 12 Patrick Street #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike B&W📸Old Photos of Cork www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 6d

Cornmarket Street #Cork in 1978 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #FlashbackFriday📸P Galvin

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 6d

Born #Onthisday 1885 nurse Aoife de Búrca who treated the injured (including James Connolly) during the #EasterRising at the Hibernian Hotel & the GPO & carried messages through the chaos. She returned to nursing for #Dublin Corporation, dedicating her life to care.

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 7d

Yesterdays #WhereinCork was inside Roches Stores, Patrick Street - this is outside in 1991 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday 📸 P. Losty

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 8d

#WhereinCork would you find this department store #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 9d

Born #Onthisday 1893 in #Longford Sean MacEoin the 'Blacksmith of Ballinalee', this is a video of his wedding Alice Cooney on 21 June 1922 at a ceremony attended by Arthur Griffith & #MichaelCollins shortly before their deaths #IrishRevolution youtube.com/watch?v=KNe2...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 10d

Timewarp photo of @TheWestinDublin Westmoreland Street #Dublin 1950 & 2021 #TimewarpDublin @OldDublinTown B&W photo Capuchin Archives

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 10d

Died#Onthisday 1928 in #Kildare born #Fenian John Devoy - more from @cilldara2016 buff.ly/3B8GEBy 📷LOC with Lynch, Hendricks, Goff, Dev & Gavigan buff.ly/3Bc2ynH

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 13d

One of my favourite #Cork women Agnes Clerke, astronomer & writer born #Onthisday 1840. In 1981, she was honoured when a crater on the moon, near the Apollo 17 landing site, was named the Clerke Crater by the International Astronomical Union roaringwaterjournal.com/tag/clerke-c...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 14d

Died #OnThisDay 1972 Kathleen Daly Clarke 1st female @LordMayorDublin wife of Tom & sister of Ned Daly executed #EasterRising. On her election 1939 she refused to wear the Lord Mayor’s Chain as it had a bust of King William III on the medal B&W📸NLI

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 14d

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was the former Victoria Hotel Patrick Street #Cork #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 15d

#WhereinCork would you find this building c.1930 #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 17d

Timewarp of St. Lukes Church then (c1900) and now (2020) #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #Cork

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 17d

Died #Onthisday 1915 Irish born Frances Esther How. Her family left Ireland for Canada c.1850 & it was here she became an educator & social reformer 'the Jane Addams of Toronto' www.biographi.ca/en/bio/how_f...

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 18d

The Lough #Cork in 1945 - B&W📸Capuchins #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 21d

Yesterday's #WhereinCork was Kyrl's Quay - in this one you can see the 1779 archway was once part of the entrance door to one of #Cork's oldest firms John Daly & Co Mineral Water Manufacturers on Kyrl's Quay #LoveCork #PureCork #CorkLike #ThrowbackThursday📸P Galvin

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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 22d

Died #Onthisday 1970 Nora Wallace who with her sister Sheila ran a small in the shadow of St. Augustine’s Church, in the centre of #Cork City, central to Volunteer activities during the #IrishWarofIndependence as were the sisters
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irishfamilydetective @irishfamilydetective.ie · 23d

Michael's Lane #Dubln c1865 - 1914 #Dublin B&W📸NLI www.irishfamilydetective.ie/colourisation

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