Shannon - Unique and Distinctive

Upcoming event: Exposing Narratives from Negatives, Shannon Library, 7 October 2025

Don’t miss this presentation by Dr Kirsten Mulrennan for Clare Libraries Seactain na Staire

Photographs of Santa found in the Shannon Development Archive

Photographs of Christmas decorations at the Duty Free at Shannon Airport in 1971

Today’s post features some snowy photographs from the Shannon Development Archive

The story of Cata, The great sea monster of the Shannon!

Today’s images, from the Shannon Development collection, show the modern flats built at Shannon in the early 1960s

Shannon Airport terminal building (1982)

Hughes Helicopters at Shannon Airport (1965)

Bunratty Castle and Coach from the Shannon Development Archive (1962)

For the year to come, we are hopeful and excited for greater opportunities to travel […]

Staff at Shannon Airport, Christmas 1958

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