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Post town sources

Postal treaties

Dead letter office

1922 Irish postal workers strike

Transposed text from The Graphic" newspaper of 16 September 1922.

No sooner had a new Government of the Irish Free State been formed on Sunday under the leadership of Mr. W.T. Cosgrave, than the postal workers of the city went on strike. The strike was not due to the selection of Mr. Cosgrave, but to the proposed reduction in wages. The Government offer to spread the reduction over three months has been rejected. The right of civil servants to strike is denied by the Government and picketing is not allowed outside the post offices and telephone offices. The Government choice of the present moment to enforce a reduction in wages is regarded as an indication of its determination to enforce firm rule in its own house — which may not be a bad thing for Irish administration.

1979 Irish postal workers strike

RMS Scot

RMS Scot on the South African Mail Service
History
Great Britain
Name
  • Scot, later called
  • Oceana 1905
  • Alfonso XIII 1915
  • Vasco Nunez de Balboa 1923
Owner
  • Union Steamship Co. Ltd.
  • 1900 Union-Castle Mail S.S. Co. Ltd., Southampton
  • 1905 Hamburg America Linie, Hamburg
  • 1911 Bermuda-Atlantic S.S. Co. Ltd, Toronto
  • 1914 Bermuda-American S.S. Co. Inc., New York
  • 1915 Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co., New York
  • 1915 Cia Trasatlantica, Barcelona
OperatorUnion-Castle Line
Port of registrySouthampton
BuilderWilliam Denny & Bros, Dunbarton
Yard number443
Launched31 December 1890
Maiden voyage5 July 1891
Out of service1927
Refit1896 new tonnage 7859g after lengthening to 531.0 ft
Identification98845
FateBroken Up 6 July 1927
General characteristics
Tonnage6,844 tons gross, 4,278 tons net
Length477 ft (145 m)
Beam54.8 ft (16.7 m)
Draught17.9 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion2-screw, 2 x T3cyl (34.5, 57.5, 92 x 60in), 1440nhp
Speed16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)

RMS Scot

1897 Barney Barnato disappeared overboard from the RMS Scot on a voyage from Australia to England, reportedly he committed suicide.[1]

Sources
Images
  1. ^ [1] & [2]

Audrey Hepburn stamp

Imperial Hotel, Dublin

1853 view of Sackville Street, the hotel shows just eight windows and no identifying signage

The Imperial Hotel was a hotel in Dublin's principle thoroughfare, Sackville Street, until it was destroyed during the Easter Rising of 1916. The building it was in comprised of Clerys department store on the lower floors and the Imperial Hotel on upper floors.

History

Pre-1916 Picture postcard of Sackville Street with Imperial Hotel after expanding it size to eleven windows wide with the name inscribed between the floors, on the entrance awning and on the flag

The hotel was located in Dublin's principle thoroughfare, Lower Sackville Street, renamed O'Connell Street in 1924.

In 1850 the Imperial Hotel, is shown as a four window wide building at 21–22 Lower Sackville Street opposite the General Post Office.[1] The hotel name certainly was in use from at least 1843.[2] Ten years later, by 1853, it had expanded into an eight window wide building that also housed Clerys department store in the building's lower floors with the Imperial Hotel on upper floors.

In the 1840s and 1850s the hotel had its own post paid handstamp to indicate to the post office the mail had been pre-paid[3] which at that time was not the norm. Most mail was sent unpaid.

1913 Lockout

1913 meeting prohibition - Larkin

During the 1913 Dublin lock-out, William Martin Murphy, the owner of the Imperial Hotel and Clerys department store and several other businesses was no lover of trade unions, especially the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union .... James Larkin. Despite being banned from public speaking but having promised his supporters he would speak in O'Connell Street, Larkin snuck into the hotel in disguise. When he started to speak from the balcony of one of the hotel rooms, he was arrested and mayhem broke out in the street below once the police force of about 300 strong charged and violently attached the crowd. Many spectators fled though many had been assaulted resulting in bleeding heads and being kicked while on the ground.[4]

Easter Rising

The damage to many buildings in Sackville Street was severe. The Imperial Hotel and the General Post Office opposite, were very badly damaged during the fighting and only the hotel front facade remained though barely intact.

References

  1. ^ Shaw, Henry (1850). "New City Pictorial Directory 1850". Henry Shaw. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  2. ^ "The Inchicore Works and Estate: slide 7". Inchicore Estate History. slideshre.net. 11 May 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
  3. ^ Feldman, David; Kane, William (1975). Handbook of Irish Postal History to 1840. Dublin: David Feldman (I) Limited. pp. 31–32.
  4. ^ Dorney, John (31 August 2013). "Today in Irish History – August 31, 1913 – Labour's Bloody Sunday". The Irish History. Retrieved 23 June 2021.
Sources

Irish US Bicentenary stamp missing silver

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