This photo was taken when poet William Butler Yeats was 58.

We have an ongoing exhibition celebrating the Life and Works of William Butler Yeats here in Dublin, but for those of you who are far, far away, it’s also online…

Date: 1923

NLI Ref.: INDH3464

By National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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Artistic display of meat products from Irish Co-operative Meat Ltd., Waterford to tempt the palate in the run up to Christmas 1930. So we have sausages, black and white pudding (or maybe brawn?), and lard. The packaging on the lard proudly declares that it is "guaranteed perfectly pure" and "untouched by human hand". It cost 1/6.

(Virtual) 1lb. of sausages to anyone who can tell me the address for the meat factory in the 1930s, so I can add it to our Flickr map!

Date: 12 December 1930

NLI Ref.: P_WP_3770

By National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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Pupils of Our Lady of Lourdes, Holy Faith school at Rosbercon, New Ross, Co. Wexford. Looks as if they were dressed up for a Nativity Play, but what the hell was the Wicked Witch of the West doing as part of the cast?

Date: 23 December 1930

NLI Ref.: P_WP_3785

By National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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