General Post Office (Dublin) - Images

Images

  • The General Post Office in an engraving from about 1827

  • The GPO before independence with British flag flying. Most of the building and the adjacent Hotel Metropole were destroyed in 1916.

  • New Garda recruits march past the GPO, Tóstal 1954

  • A plaque commemorating the Easter Rising at the GPO, with the Irish text in Gaelic script, and the English text in Latin script

  • The GPO in 2006.

  • The GPO in 2007.

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