A Postcard from Baldoyle

By Michael J. Hurley

This book brings to the reader the postcard publishing history of this area of North County Dublin in Ireland. A small village its children's' hospital, ladies' holiday home, and horse racecourse provided sufficient visitors to warrant souvenir postcards. The hey-day of the postcard was the period around and following the Great War. The postcard is an important document in social history as it concentrated on the locality and infrastructure of a place while the personal camera tended to capture images of people. This book shows all of the postcards with a Baldoyle theme which I have been able to source.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Michael J. Hurley
• Release date: May 7, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311345363

Michael J. Hurley

Michael John Hurley was born in Baldoyle County Dublin in June 1950. He has harboured a lifelong interest in the history of the local hinterland. Michael has written the following books on the locality:'Where Came Dark Stranger', 'The View from The Grandstand', 'The Train to Howth', 'Articles, Particles, & Facts, 'Tales of Old Baldoyle', 'Baldoyle The Racecourse Village', 'Baldoyle, Portmarnock, Sutton - A Local History','The Light of Other Days', 'An Introduction to The Wild Flowers of Baldoyle', 'A Quick Guide To Old Baldoyle', 'The Story of Stapolin'. 'Cill Fhionntáin', 'Sutton, Baldoyle Musical Society 40th Anniversary', 'Baldoyle 1911 - The Census Year', 'The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) in the areas of Baldoyle, Howth, Sutton, County Dublin','The Howth Peninsula From Old Postcards' (with Anne Murphy). He has also released two DVD programmes on the locality. He has a photo collection of some 3,000 local images and gives talks and photo presentations to community groups in the area of north Dublin. For family reasons Michael has lived in County Galway since 2013. His latest e-books are on the subject of the Galway General Omnibus Company Limited, Galway Horse Trams, Galway Bay Steamboat Company, Wild flowers in Lackagh, and Wild Birds in Lackagh .