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The Irish Exhibition of 1907 - Janet MacD - 06-08-2025
This postcard was mailed from the postal branch office at the Irish National Exhibition in Dublin in 1907:
Canada was represented at the exhibition with a pavilion in which a wide range of products was displayed. This postcard of the pavilion is from the government of Ontario archives:
The exhibition was considered a success by many, but the Irish who supported independence - both in Ireland and emigrants living abroad - viewed it as a scheme of the English royalists. This article in The Gaelic American, a newspaper published in New York City, expresses those feelings (from Villanova University Library digital archives):
Fifty-two acres of land were transformed into the exhibition grounds. An artificial lake was created with a 90 foot high water slide. My postcard has the exhibition postmark, but it is not a picture of the exhibition. The card I would like to find is this one, from the Toronto Public Library digital archives. It shows the view from the top of the water slide:
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