Old Irish photos: Amazing old pictures of Irish people from yesteryear are fascinating. The more you look, the more there is to see!
Workers at a mine in Knockmahon, County Waterford. 1906.
Women sell tourist trinkets and books on Fionn Mac Cumhaill’s Wishing Chair at the Giant’s Causeway, County Antrim. 1900.
Three generations of a family pose beside their home at Alexander Street, Waterford. 1924.
The Waterford Bicycle Club. 1897.
The Riley family, survivors of the sinking of the Lusitania, in Cobh, County Cork. 1915.
The McCoy family of Waterford. 1901.
The Glencar Tea House in County Leitrim. 1900
The Fannings of Waterford. 1885.
The Cloghvorra Stone, near Kenmare. 1890.
Sir Hercules Robert Langrishe, 5th Baronet Langrishe and his dog. 1913.
Sailors on the Sarah McDonald at Waterford. 1913.
People in costume at the Theatre Royal in Waterford. 1914.
Moll’s Gap, Kerry. 1910.
Men on horseback in front of Kate Kearney’s Cottage in Kerry. 1900.
Medical student John Joseph Clarke. 1900.
Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station, Malin Head, County Donegal. 1902.
Lifeboat men. 1914.
J. Morgan’s butcher shop on Broad Street, Waterford. 1916
Ireland, 1908.
Ireland, 1900.
Ireland, 1899
Ireland, 1885.
Inside the Bonmahon Mines. 1906.
Glencar Tea House, County Leitrim. 1890.
Girls of the Ursuline Convent in Waterford pose in their gymnasium. 1908.
Fisher folk of Ardglass, County Down. 1910.
Field hockey players. 1904.
Cricket players. 1902.
A young member of the Irish Guards at Waterford Barracks with the regiment’s mascot, an Irish Wolfhound. 1917.
A wool operation in Leenane, County Galway. 1910.
A weigh station in Clifden, County Galway. 1908.
A Royal Welsh Fusilier with the Regimental Goat, and his strap-on crest. 1887.
A family cuts turf near Ballymena. 1885.
There are many more collections in the digital gallery of the National Library of Ireland.
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