Ncdjd2 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 12, 2021 5:48 pm Basically he's back spacing the subject line and replacing with a -

Looks like a bot running the account

Much overplayed, but the theme to The Mission is still a classic

It evokes an image of British soldiers firing at natives in colonial times.
Boer War maybe?

Ncdjd2 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:48 pm Famine Pots ? Brought in by the Quakers in 1847 ?

Full marks Ncd. Too easy!

I'll throw in another one. The plant container in the picture is typical of hundreds of similar containers put to a variety of uses in parks, gardens and farms around Ireland. When were these containers introduced to Ireland, what was their original purpose, and who were largely responsible for intr...

There is a short tunnel after Blackrock Dart Station that predates Innishannon. It was constructed in 1834 to allow Lord Clonbury to access the seafront from his house as well as affording his estate privacy from the railway. Not quite as impressive admittedly but older it is. https://www.youtube.c...

I guess it's their 75th so. 1946?

An initiative by children to try to encourage more inclusion and diversity in their schools sparks outrage and indignation among adults More state brainwashing. Trying to get us to accept everyone. I think that is deeply subversive conditioning. The whole point of it is to destroy the idea that a bi...

No problem Del. I thought the scene didn't quite look English so I did Google Lens on it. The original artist is English but I'm guessing the scene is fictitious. I think your sketchbook is an amateur artist's copies of different lesser known artworks and sketches, rather than originals - but that d...

Your first picture is a copy of this (or at least the same street scene):

Attributed to Ernest Uden
https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi? ... r&pid=1268

I think the British retained control of the seas after the treaty. Maybe sometime after the establishment of the Republic, so some time after 1948 maybe?

Oh! oh! oh!! Kent!! Yes! Kent Station. You know what they say about a stopped clock, Knucklehead! You can see the post box in Streetview, under the fire hose, between the water vending machine and the AMT coffee dock. It’s remarkably small and inconspicuous, and is mostly unnoticed but continues to...

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Hairy-Joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:20 pm Wait for it, it's somewhere daft like Wilton Shopping Centre but I know it's not that.

Thankfully not in that godawful place!

Knucklehead6 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:07 pm Oops

Nope. Not McKee. It’s not public

Knucklehead, you've already answered correctly earlier, but to the wrong question!

Hairy-Joe wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 8:02 pm Something in the back of the head is saying inside the GPO in Cork?

Edit - I had outside the GPO but changed it after realising I can't read.

Right city, wrong building. Have another go.

Not Athlone, Riffmongous, nor anywhere close. It’s an urban post box. It was a very early design, and the aperture on the box opens upwards, which unfortunately lets the rain in. For that reason, it’s now located indoors in a busy public building. Although it's Victorian, it pre-dates all post boxes...

The first post box in Ireland, the Ashworth. is shown in the commemorative stamp below. The post box is no longer in use but is normally on display at the National Museum. https://anpostmuseum.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/ashworth-stamp-2.jpg There are lots of Victorian era boxes all around the count...

It’s curious how topical (even controversial) some postcards were in the past. Images of the Rising were all the rage back in 1916. 58346.jpg The cards in this UCD collection provide a great pictorial record of the damage to Dublin caused by the 1916 Rising: https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ucdlib:38376

There’s at least two disused tunnels on the old west Cork railway line on the stretch from the city to Bandon, a large one near Ballinhassig and the other west of Innishannon just off the main west Cork road. That part of the line was built around 1850 so I imagine it’s one of these. The local TD's ...

Did a quick excel calculation and i got...

Hard to resist the temptation to google when you haven't a clue.
I'll guess Missouri.

As far as I know. none of the census returns from the Irish State are available to the general public in the same way that 1901/1911 are. We'll have to wait til 2027 to see the returns for 1926 (which was the first census taken by the Irish state) as a 100 year rule is applied. Fron the National Arc...

Jimmy Bottlehead wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 3:53 pm Gotta say, I've wondered about Prime as a streaming service for ages, but reading the above makes me think I'll stick with Netflix.

Netflix is better for sure. For most Prime subscribers it's about the free and fast delivery, with the streaming service just an added bonus.