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    Sutton from Old Postcards
    Sutton from Old Postcards
    Sutton from Old Postcards
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    Sutton from Old Postcards

    By Michael J. Hurley

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    This book brings to the reader the postcard publishing history of this area of North County Dublin in Ireland. The hey-day of the postcard was the period around and following the Great War. The postcard is an important document in social history as it concentrated on the locality and infrastructure of a place while the personal camera tended to capture images of people. This book shows all of the postcards with a Sutton County Dublin theme which I have been able to source.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMichael J. Hurley
    Release dateMar 3, 2016
    ISBN9781311101204
    Sutton from Old Postcards
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    Michael J. Hurley

    Michael John Hurley was born in Baldoyle County Dublin in June 1950. He has harboured a lifelong interest in the history of the local hinterland. Michael has written the following books on the locality:'Where Came Dark Stranger', 'The View from The Grandstand', 'The Train to Howth', 'Articles, Particles, & Facts, 'Tales of Old Baldoyle', 'Baldoyle The Racecourse Village', 'Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Sutton - A Local History','The Light of Other Days', 'An Introduction to The Wild Flowers of Baldoyle', 'A Quick Guide To Old Baldoyle', 'The Story of Stapolin'. 'Cill Fhionntáin', 'Sutton, Baldoyle Musical Society 40th Anniversary', 'Baldoyle 1911 - The Census Year', 'The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in the areas of Baldoyle, Howth, Sutton, County Dublin','The Howth Peninsula From Old Postcards' (with Anne Murphy). He has also released two DVD programmes on the locality. He has a photo collection of some 3,000 local images and gives talks and photo presentations to community groups in the area of north Dublin. For family reasons Michael has lived in County Galway since 2013. His latest e-books are on the subject of the Galway General Omnibus Company Limited, Galway Horse Trams, Galway Bay Steamboat Company, Wild flowers in Lackagh, and Wild Birds in Lackagh .

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      Sutton from Old Postcards - Michael J. Hurley

      Introduction

      The arrival of a railway service marked the beginning of the heyday of the tourist industry. People who came on holiday sent postcards to their family and friends and many people collected these cards (a collector of postcards is known as a deltiologist) and saved them in albums. Indeed even today I know a gentleman who does not own a camera but buys selected postcards for his album of places he visits. Non-holiday makers used the card as a normal means of communication. In that era the cheapest way to communicate was by post – unkindly branded snail-mail in this instant electronic age of 2014. This card, posted at half price as it had no envelope, was delivered the same afternoon or the following day. Snail-mail?

      But what of the ever popular holiday post card? In 1870 the Post Office issued plain cards with a pre-printed stamp on one side. In 1894 they softened their stance and permitted cards printed by private suppliers to be posted using an adhesive half-penny stamp. These cards were an immediate success and in 1895 a new size card, The Court Card was introduced with limited space for illustration. Four years later the 5½ x 3½ inch post card came into being. However, postal regulations only permitted the writing of name, address, and the fixing of the stamp on the reverse of the card. Therefore, any message or greeting had to be written on the picture side of the card, leading to oversized borders for this

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