Old Dublin Ireland images - vintage 1930's street scenes. |
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Early 20th century Ireland - 1930's Dublin images, traffic on O'Connell Street Bridge. 1930's central Dublin street scene image with electric trams, vintage cars & pedestrians traverse O'Connell Street Bridge. On the Liffey river a Guinness Barge approaches, making its way upriver to the nearby Guinness Brewery at St James's Gate. |
![]() The Guinness barges ferried beer barrels from St. James's Gate brewery to Victoria Quay where Guinness ships docked. Until the late 1950's the barges were used extensively on Ireland's waterways to transport Guinness barrels. Their funnels were hinged, enabling them to be lowered when travelling under Liffey river bridges at high tides.
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![]() Colourised version of old Dublin Ireland photograph c1934. O'Connell Street junction with Eden Quay viewed from Aston Quay on the South side of the River Liffey, with tram & vintage car traffic on O'Connell Street bridge. The stationary horse & trap at lower left of the image is a hackney driver waiting for a fare and incidentally - a taxi rank still exists near the same location. Looking down O'Connell Street, Clerys department store with twin veranda shutters are visible to right of Nelsons Pillar.
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Video clip of final journey by Guinness Barge Castleknock on June 21 1961, passing under the H'apenny Bridge, ferrying empty kegs of stout to Guinness jetty at St. James's Gate. ![]() |
Old Dublin 1915 Ireland video featuring city centre scenes, including vintage car at College Green & barge travelling on River Liffey. Dublin 1915 video. |
![]() Cars parked on O'Connell St. bridge in 1920's Dublin Ireland. |
Back in 1930's Dublin a cinema ticket to see the latest feature film at the Savoy Cinema on O'Connell Street cost one shilling (5p). A house on Botanic Road, Glasnevin, with 4 bedrooms cost £1,000, and a pint of plain (Guinness) cost 11d.
![]() Image of O'Connell Street Bridge in 1932 with single decker buses, trams & street traffic. |
![]() Street traders on South Great George's Street, goods on display with wooden barrell supports. Dublin photo c1927. The building visible in the background is the City Market. Below photograph by Robert French c1894. ![]() City Market building on South Great Georges Street Dublin c1894. |
The 1952 short film "Portrait of Dublin" explores the city's cultural, literary & architectural history.
Guinness ships unloading & old Dublin Ireland street scenes, view the movie at Irish Film Institute.
Irish towns & countryside landscape images - Early 1900's antique prints of Ireland.
Vintage Dublin 1930's College Green street scene photo & Bank of Ireland building (Grattan's Parliament). Ireland posters & Irish photo gallery - main page.Privacy policy. | Vintage wall prints.![]() Old Dublin prints. Monochrome images of old Dublin & rural Ireland - wall posters. |