#StPaddysDay Parliament St. Kilkenny by National Library of Ireland on The Commons Via Flickr: Parliament Street in Kilkenny is one of the last photographs for this week. Tall buildings with a selection of ladders, tall, medium and small, a donkey with churns on the cart and children to put a smile on our faces! Apart from the men with the ladder (believed perhaps to be associated to the "S Costelloe Builder" signage seen closeby), much of today's conversation focused on the date range for this Lawrence Collection image. In particular, though the catalogue range implies a date of c.1880-1900, based on the businesses, buildings and (in particular) posters visible, we're actually probably looking at a scene from c.1903-1909. Our eagle-eyed contributors highlight a news poster outside Power's stationers. It seems to refer to a "Universities Bill", which is probably the bill which was passed to become the 1908 Universities Act.... Photographer: Robert French Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection Date: Catalogue range c.1880-1900. Though possibly c.1905 (perhaps <1908 given mention of "Universities Bill" on news poster) NLI Ref: L_ROY_07894 You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
