OVER TIME, CITIES evolve. Businesses open and close; buildings are demolished and rebuilt; sometimes whole streets change dramatically.

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

Some areas have hardly changed at all. Others are unrecognisable.

Stephen’s Green, 1875

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… and today

Main Street, Blackrock, 1875

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… and today

Patrick Street, 1898

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… and today

Parkgate Street, 1910

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… and today

North Frederick Street and Hardwicke Street, 1912

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… and today

Harcourt Street, 1931

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… and today

Capel Street, 1960

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… and today

Hawkins Street, 1962

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… and today

Dublin Before the Tiger: Incredibly detailed images of the city in the 1980s>