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Ireland Illustrated on NUI/Galway website

Post by smcarberry » Sun May 27, 2018 3:40 pm

From a website not normally featuring such news items:

"Ireland Illustrated, 1680-1860, went online on 15.5.2018. Available at: ttce.nuigalway.ie/ii/. It is a fully searchable database over of 500 images and related extracts from more than 50 travel accounts of Ireland. Sources include manuscripts and printed works, many of which have not been readily accessible until now."

Using the map view to see what specific locations have images or a travel account extract, I took the attached screenshot of Clare (most of it, but northern tier and the extreme NE & SW corners have no items). Many of the Clare ones come from the 1681 publication by Thomas Dineley, very quaint.

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Re: Ireland Illustrated on NUI/Galway website

Post by Sduddy » Wed Jul 26, 2023 10:06 am

Hi Sharon

I am adding links some of the Thomas Dineley drawings of places in Co. Clare, plus a couple of Limerick city:

Ballyclogh castle - Thomas Dineley (created 1681):https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374761149

Ballykitt - Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1375023058

Donogoroge Castle - Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1375012606

Islands Belonging to the Right Honourable Earle of Thomond – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374834526

Mount Ivers Castle - Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374673983

O Briens Bridg-Town – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1375104654

Rallahine Castle – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374763395

Ross Roe Castle – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374859705

Ruines of the Abby of Clare – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1375009929

Sepulchral monuments in Quin Abbey - Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374926517

The Blazing Starr – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374854258

The Citty of Limerick – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374499956

The North Prospect of Bunratty Castle from the Parke belonging to the Castle – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374841507

The Prospect of Scattery Island from Cappouh Hill – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1375018264

The Ruines of Quin-Abby – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374925295

The South-East Prospect of Ballicar Castle – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374676032

Thomond Bridge and King John’s Castle [Limerick] – Thomas Dineley (created 1681): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1374494650
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A couple of other images of places in Co. Clare that I found interesting: [Two silver brooches dug up on Scattery Island] Source: John Sheehan, ‘The character and cultural context of the Inis Cáthaig/Scattery Island silver hoard’ The Other Clare, Vol 34 (2010), 23-28: https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1372183909

Dromoland Castle - Henrietta Georgiana Marcia Chatterton, author of travel text (created 1839): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1372166587

Killaloe on the Shannon - Thomas Creswick (draughtsman), Henry Wallis (engraver) (created 1838): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1369131351
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A couple images of general interest. I especially like the one of jaunting car in the rain and wind, of which we have had plenty in Ireland in this month of July!:

An Outside Jaunting Car in a Storm – Daniel Maclise (created 1806 – 1870): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1345564818.

[Construction of an Irish cabin] from A Tour in Ireand by Arthur Young (created 1780): https://ttce.nuigalway.ie/irelandillust ... 1369749111

Sheila

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Re: Ireland Illustrated on NUI/Galway website

Post by smcarberry » Wed Jul 26, 2023 11:25 am

Those links are great ways to enhance the ease of reaching the involved extracts & drawings for old Clare available thru NUI/Galway. Thanks, Sheila, for taking the time to lay those out here, for our confirmed and budding antiquarians. Readers have a fine way to while away the hours awaiting better weather (out of the wind and rain where you are, or avoiding the brutal heat of summer in the U.S.).

We are so fortunate to be celebrating over 20 years of widespread access to the World Wide Web aka the Internet. Nothing much truly vanishes, although you might have to have some mad tech skills to know how to resurrect it out of the electronic dust-pile. I too am highlighting a great institutional resource today, with a reply posting to Matthew Macnamara's recent Famine posting, to which I can add some context with observations preserved on Clare diet in the early 1800s, found via Google Books years ago but which are now easily available on the Clare County Library website. My mind boggles on what is needed tech-wise to keep the Library site up and running. TG for the computer nerds who walk the Earth and keep us all connected.

Every bit of time, thought, and consideration on the part of folks posting here about e-resources, is greatly appreciated.

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