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Where: Cork, , Ireland
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When: 10 August 1922
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This is how Republicans left the typesetting machines at the Cork Examiner newspaper offices before Free State or National Army troops arrived in Cork city.
Date: 9 or 10 August 1922
NLI Ref.: HOGW 129
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Date: 9 or 10 August 1922
NLI Ref.: HOGW 129
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Michiel2005
The keyboards suggest that these are the type-setting machines (Monotypes or Linotypes).
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/govert1970 You're absolutely right! My apologies - description and tags now amended...
Ismael Barrera - DIGISNAPSTUDIO
Amazing image. Love this type of scene. Such clarity!
moriscocat
It´s a powerful image. I recently could see one of this machines in the Science Museum of Granada.
BlueisCoool
What a wonderful and powerful capture !
RETRO STU
They really thrashed that old Linotype !
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23885771@N03 They certainly did!
Editorial Martín Fierro
www.flickr.com/photos/76526966@N03/7020985437/