The past is another country

By Kevin O’Sullivan

When I was at home last weekend, my father updated me on his ongoing project to scan the collection of postcards originally sent among my grandfather’s relatives at the turn of the twentieth century, and attentively collected, preserved and added to (there are some intriguing Irish Shipping Ltd postcards from the 1950s) by my grandmother. Having spent a few hours reading and looking through a small part of the collection, I thought that some of them were too good not to share. Jumping on the bandwagon of Dave O’Sullivan’s hard work, the ones I have posted here represent a small sample of a reasonably large collection of postcards that deal mainly with Irish subjects but also include images of Devonshire, Lourdes, New York, Alabama, and Paris, and several sent by a missionary relative from a boat headed for Manila in the Philippines. These postcards of Dublin and its environs were all sent between 1907 and 1911.

Bray:

Balscadden Bay, Howth:

Kingstown:

Christ Church Cathedral:

St. Patrick’s Cathedral:

College Green:

Dublin Castle:

The Shelbourne Hotel, St. Stephen’s Green:

National Library:

Irish International Exhibition, 1907:

Powerscourt House:

Tags: Ireland, Postcards, Twentieth Century