New colourisation of Dublin from 16 June 1940
A unified appeal by de Valera (FF), Cosgrave (FG) and Norton (Lab) to densely packed crowds at College Green, Dublin, as they ask for thousands of army recruits and defence force volunteers during the Emergency - ends with scenes of lorries taking the men to barracks
Source: https://film.britishcouncil.org/resources/film-archive/british-news-no-3
75 years ago: 1948
Views of County Cork and Cork City
Including inside the local Ford plant
Killarney, Co. Kerry (2 of 3)
17 May 1929
Some young lads looking at the movie camera, a woman in traditional shawl leads a cart with turf, O'Callaghan's maybe, another cart with cabbages, J O'Leary's of Main St, P Cronin
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Killarney, Co. Kerry (1 of 3)
17 May 1929
Slattery’s, the Killarney Bar, the Franciscan Friary, and more...
And of course, lots of donkeys and carts!
(Did you spot the men on the ladders at 30 seconds?)
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Boy on cart, donkeys, town market
[Anyone know where this town is? Cork or Kerry perhaps? ]
1929, Ireland (locations unknown)
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Scenes from Killarney
1929, Co. Kerry
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It’s the Bells of Shandon in Cork from 1929
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A Town Crier, 1929
Thank you to Cholo1 / chollo1 on TikTok: “The Farmer’s Union will take pigs here on Wednesday morning, also they’ll pay, pay cash down, from 11 o‘clock until 2”
It could be Killarney as from other clips, but Macroom is also tagged in the video
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An Trá
Inis Oírr
Oileáin Árann
Co. na Gaillimhe
1929
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Old Ireland in Colour