WE’VE taken seven photographs of Irish street scenes from the National Library of Ireland’s archive, and matched them with the same scene today thanks to Google Street View.

Some have hardly changed at all. Others are unrecognisable.

George’s Street (now O’Connell Street), Limerick, 1880

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… and today

St Patrick’s Hill, Cork, circa 1900

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… and today

College Street, Killarney, circa 1900

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… and today

Main Street, Blackrock, Co Louth, circa 1905

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… and today

Shop Street, Galway, 1910

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… and today

The Mall, Tralee, 1952

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… and today

High Street, Kilkenny, 1955

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… and today

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