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# blast from the past

Archive Postcard of the Day

When College Green was actually green.

(Image: National Library of Ireland/Flickr)

THIS MID-1770s hand-coloured engraving of College Green shows a very different and green side to the city centre.

The National Library of Ireland just posted the image by artist Joseph Tudor to their Flickr, which they say was printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Printseller in Fleet Street, London.

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