The Irish Exhibition of 1907

[Janet MacD]

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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