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I am doing a Reddit AMA if anyone is interested and can't be bothered PMing me here to ask questions.

I'm a historian who studies old Irish photos, ask me anything. • /r/IrishHistory

When????

 

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When????

Any time.

 

[GO]

How old is Ireland?

When and where was the first spicy bag sold?

 

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How old is Ireland?

When and where was the first spicy bag sold?

Ireland is 440 million years old.

Not sure when but New World Chinese in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow claims to be the progenitor of that particular delicacy.

 

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What's a spicy bag?

Have I been away too long?

 

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What's a spicy bag?

Have I been away too long?

Shredded breaded chicken, chips, chilies and other spices in a bag. Can be quite delicious.

 

[nooleen]

takeaway grill scrapings with added spice to cover the rancidity

 

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Sounds like I left none too soon

 

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Fadó Fadó: Irish Memory


I started this because I'm mad into old photos, maps, and malarky. Hoping (unlike every other project I've ever attempted) to regularly post and when it gets warmer outside to actually start doing more leg work for posts as opposed to just cogging stuff off the internet. I went with a simple traditional look one, they had all those swanky web 3.0 type ones and they just annoyed the fook out of me. Anyway see what ya think.

Have you ever happened across an old photo of the McHugh Himself shop?

 

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Have you ever happened across an old photo of the McHugh Himself shop?

Not that I recall. Where was it?

 

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Not that I recall. Where was it?

It was on Talbot St, next to an old cinema there.
Across from Molloy's pub, near the railway bridge.

Famous spot. He sold radios and bikes.

 

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It was on Talbot St, next to an old cinema there.
Across from Molloy's pub, near the railway bridge.

Famous spot. He sold radios and bikes.

Will have a gander when I land home.

 

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Boom

 

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That is a beautiful photo! My work here... is done.

 

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That is a beautiful photo! My work here... is done.

I want to get it on a t-shirt after reading @GO's t-shirt thread

 

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I want to get it on a t-shirt after reading @GO's t-shirt thread

There is something slightly poignantly old world about the combination of bikes and radios. Defo get it on a T-shirt.

 

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There is something slightly poignantly old world about the combination of bikes and radios. Defo get it on a T-shirt.

I think it was the fact that they were never-never items

Not exactly sure

 

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There is something slightly poignantly old world about the combination of bikes and radios. Defo get it on a T-shirt.

my grandfather did bikes, prams and radiograms in donnybrook. first t.v. shop there too. coulda been an empire but he died in '56.

 

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my grandfather did bikes, prams and radiograms in donnybrook. first t.v. shop there too. coulda been an empire but he died in '56.

What was the name of the shop do you know?