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"Wait. The full moon was the night we were Sunday fortnight exactly" (U8.587)
This is a Hold-To Lights (HTL) PC of the Die Cut kind. Such cards have 3 layers: the top one has the picture with areas cut out, the middle layer is thin colored tissue paper, and the bottom layer is the Address backing. When held up to a strong light, the cutout portions (here the full moon, windows, street and tram lights) appear brightly illuminated. Most were published in Germany. |
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"Walking down by the Tolka." (U8.588) |
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"He other side of her. Elbow, arm. He. Glowworm's la-amp is gleaming, love. Touch. Fingers. Asking. Answer. Yes." (U8.589) |
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"With ha quiet keep relief, his eyes took note this is street here middle of the day Bob Doran's bottle shoulders. On his annual bend, M'Coy said. They drink in order to say or do something or cherchez la femme." (U8.594) |
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"Broth of a boy." (U8.601)
... in an item from the Irish-American publication The Gael (1903). |
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"The harp that once did starve us all." (U8.606) |
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"I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Twentyeight I was. She twentythree. When we left Lombard street west something changed. Could never like it again after Rudy. Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then." (U8.608) |
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"Would you? Are you not happy in your home, you poor little naughty boy?" (U8.612) |
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"Wants to sew on buttons for me. I must answer. Write it in the library." (U8.613) |
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"Grafton street gay with housed awnings lured his senses." (U8.614) |
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"Muslin prints, silk dames and dowagers, jingle of harnesses, hoofthuds lowringing in the baking causeway." (U8.614) |
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This later PC still shows Grafton street as a busy shopping district. It remains so to this day. |
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"He passed, dallying, the windows of Brown Thomas, silk mercers. Cascades of ribbons. Flimsy China silks. A tilted urn poured from its mouth a flood of bloodhued poplin: lustrous blood." (U8.620)
An advertisement for Brown, Thomas & Co. in a tourist pamphlet from 1902. They were located at the corner of Grafton and Duke streets. |
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"Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains." (U8.625) |
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"Gleaming silks, petticoats on slim brass rails, rays of flat silk stockings." (U8.631) |