First President, Dublin, Ireland
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This is Douglas Hyde (in back of car holding top hat), leaving Dublin Castle with a cavalry escort following his inauguration as Ireland's first president. The car has just turned out onto Cork Hill/Dame Street at this point. The president stopped for 2 minutes outside the G.P.O. on O'Connell Street before continuing to his new home at Áras an Uachtaráin (formerly the Vice-Regal Lodge, home of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) in the Phoenix Park...Date: Saturday, 25 June 1938..View a slideshow of photos ( http://www.thejournal.ie/gallery-inauguration-of-irelands-first-poet-president-in-1938-276206-Nov2011/?utm_source=shortlink ) from our Independent Newspapers Collection all taken in Dublin on the day of Douglas Hyde's inauguration...NLI Ref.: IND_H_3312 ( IND_H_3312 )
Images from our photo collections that show those magnificent men (and women) in their flying, choo choo-ing, and driving machines... Oh, and we've cheated, we're adding boats and ships, jaunting cars and carriages, trams too and bicycles - we're completely shameless. So, basically any form of transport - air, sea, land - with the exception of two human feet...
Cars of the 1920s.
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