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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

Aftermath

Clerys was awarded damages of £77,292 for the building's reconstruction[1] that took place in 1922 but no hotel accommodation was included,[2] in the new design by architect Robert Atkinson.[3]

References

  1. ^ Moore-Cherry, Niamh; Ó Corráin, Daithí (2016). "Dublin after the 1916 Rising: a geography of destruction and reinstatement". Irish Geography. 49 (2). Dublin: Geographical Society of Ireland: 108. doi:10.2014/igj.v49i2.1237. ISSN 0075-0778. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference archiseek was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Renovated Clerys reveals history". Irish News. Irish Independent. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
Sources

Irish US Bicentenary stamp missing silver

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