by Pól Ó Duibhir, retired and family history researcher The Connection – The day was 16 June 1946. The man in the sweetshop collapsed and died on the spot. There would be no cartoon of this event. But it was not easily forgotten in the sweetshop owner’s family. The man was Gordon Brewster, artist and […]
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Artist,
Cartoonist,
Cartoons,
Dollymount Strand,
Evening Herald,
Felix M. Larkin,
George Bernard Shaw,
Gordon Brewster,
Honora Faul,
Howth,
Independent Newspapers,
Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes,
Martello Tower,
No. 1 Northside,
Pól Ó Duibhir,
Shemus,
Sunday Independent,
The Gem
Intro by Justin Furlong, NLI Newspaper Librarian This is the third in a series of blogs connected to a joint project (Newspaper Descriptors Project) by the National Library of Ireland and the Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland (NPHFI). The project hopes to provide short descriptors or pen notes for the newspaper titles listed […]
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Charles Stewart Parnell,
Ernest Forbes,
Felix M. Larkin,
Freeman,
Freeman's Journal,
Irish Daily Independent,
Irish Independent,
Irish Parliamentary Party,
Justin Furlong,
National Press,
Newspaper & Periodical History Forum of Ireland,
Newspaper Descriptors Project,
Newspapers,
NPHFI,
Phil Blake,
Public Register,
Shemus,
Sir John Gray,
The Lepracaun,
Thomas Fitzpatrick,
Weekly Freeman,
Weekly Freeman & National Press
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