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From a life on the ocean wave yesterday with our visit to Dunmore East to the quiet seclusion of a library today. The light streaming in the windows on the right hand side may be limiting our ability to read the spines of the books but nonetheless there are a few that may help establish the location. Given that it is based in Armagh and there is a masculine feel to the room it seems fair to say this is/was a religious establishment?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3735
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Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1865 - 1914
NLI Ref: L_IMP_3735
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Earlier Stereo Pair (before 1883) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000564617 In June 2019 via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/kewing/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/kewing/48268264276/]
Niall McAuley
Exterior in L_CAB_02979 and Streetview
suckindeesel
“Armagh Robinson Library, formerly Armagh Public Library, is the oldest library in Northern Ireland, founded in 1771 by Archbishop Richard Robinson as part of his plans to establish a university. Carved in stone above the Library’s public entrance is the original Greek inscription meaning “the healing place of the soul”, a message that still resonates today.” visitarmagh.com/places-to-explore-2/armagh-robinson-library/ [https://flic.kr/p/26eyik7] via Alisha Copley
Niall McAuley
Just 2 entries at the DIA, the 1771 quoted above, and 1845 refacing.
Niall McAuley
L_IMP_3734, nearby in catalogue and geography, includes the 1st presbyterian church of 1879 with its 1889 spire looking relatively new. L_IMP_3739 likewise shows a 1904 statue of Bishop McGettigan
John Spooner
According to an article in Ballymena Weekly Telegraph on Saturday 03 August 1935, the library's most prized possessions were Swift's own copy of Gulliver's Travels with marginal notes by the author, two editions of Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary, and Itinerary of a Journey through Ireland by Fynes Moryson, printed in 1617. It translates the Greek inscription as "The Medicine Shop of the Soul". Is a medicine shop the same as a drug store?
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/ “The healing place of the soul” sounds better
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner Wrestling with online ancient dictionaries. The inscription looks to me like: ΨΥΧΗ - Life or Soul ϚΙΑΤΡΕΙΟΝ - ? -ON and -ION suffix makes it into a place, like Parthenon, added to ΙΑΤΡA - doctor΄s fee, thank-offering for cure So, place where you pay a doctor's fee for your soul ...but it is all Greek to me.
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] I am getting ... ΨΥΧΗΕΙΑΤΡΕΙΟΝ which google translates as "PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL" (!!) Greekview - goo.gl/maps/4LuqLBodrViS6D1F8
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Apart from obvious furniture shifting between the stereo pair and today's photo, there is also what look to be water pipes for radiators (?) along the back and right hand skirting boards. Central heating?
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Yes, furniture and some pipes or wiring, but the books are mostly in the same places, even today, I think!
John Spooner
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia And what is a psychiatric hospital but a place to heal the soul (as opposed to the body)?
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ I see no radiators, only pipes. Probably steam pipes which themselves provided the heating. Late 19th century technology.