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Fast ladies and freewheeling women in 1890s Dublin
Fast ladies and freewheeling women in 1890s Dublin
Stumbling across the unexpected is one of the great joys of working at Dublin City Library and Archive. We recently encountered this image of three young ladies in ‘rational’ costume in The Parnellite ‘newspaper magazine’ of February 1895, one of many in our collections of newspapers and periodicals.
Libraries: a lifeline for local communities
Libraries: a lifeline for local communities
Libraries are one of THE most important gathering places in our communities. Not only are they places of learning and personal growth but leisure.
Borrow C-Pen reading pens from our branches
Borrow C-Pen reading pens from our branches
Make reading easier with a C-Pen, now available to borrow from all of our libraries.
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