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After his temporary military posting as Commandant of Kilmainham Gaol concluded, Lennon relinquished his active army command and was formally demobilised to resume his RIC career.

The signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty in December 1921 spelt the end of the institutions that had defined Lennon's entire adult life:

• The End of the RIC: In early 1922, the Royal Irish Constabulary was formally disbanded, leaving thousands of Irish-born officers structurally displaced and highly vulnerable to local Republican reprisals.

• The Demise of the Regiment: Concurrently, his old military regiment—the Royal Dublin Fusiliers—was also disbanded in June 1922 as part of the British army's withdrawal from the newly established Irish Free State.

Upon arriving in England, Lennon sought to leverage his extensive command experience. He successfully secured a position with the Staffordshire Police and was scheduled to join their ranks later in 1923 to resume his law enforcement career on safer soil.

Lennon never got to truly build his new life in Staffordshire. The physical toll of the severe combat wounds he sustained on the burning rocks of the Kiretch Tepe Ridge in Gallipoli, combined with the immense psychological stress of governing Kilmainham Gaol and surviving the War of Independence, severely compromised his health.

Major William Sherlock Lennon died in 1923 at the age of just 43. Having survived the devastating machine-gun fire of the Ottomans and the targeted assassinations campaign of the IRA, he ultimately succumbed to failing health in the quiet exile of England just as his homeland entered its new era leading to full independence.

I would suspect that this photo is from shortly after being gazetted a temporary Captain (19th Nov 1914). His cuffs show the older style rank badges as a Captain. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_officer_rank_ww1.png

No wound stripe visible on the sleeve which he would have been entitled to wear following wounding at Gallipoli.

His death was recorded by Oliver Francis Haynes Atkey, Esq., Director, Sudan Medical Service.

Johnny Doyle I think you are right. I mistook the epaulette button for a crown, and I can't tell pips from squeaks.

So photo date is likely 14/11/1914 (Captain) - 15/8/1915 (Gallipoli) ?? Pending further information.

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Yes I think that’s right, but almost certainly taken in Ireland.

The wound stripe was first authorised under Army Order 204 of 6 July 1916:

“The following distinctions in dress will be worn on the service dress jacket by all officers and soldiers who have been wounded in any of the campaigns since 4th August, 1914:-

“Strips of gold Russia braid**, No.1, two inches in length, sewn perpendicularly on the left sleeve of the jacket to mark each occasion on which wounded. In the case of officers, the lower end of the first strip of gold braid will be immediately above the upper point of the flap on cuff.”

The Army Order was followed by Army Council Instruction No. 1637 of 22 August 1916 …

“…. it is notified for information, that the term ‘wounded’ refers only to those officers and soldiers whose names have appeared, or may hereafter appear, in the Casualty Lists as ‘wounded’. The braid will be supplied to officers and soldiers under regimental arrangements, and Commanding Officers will ensure that it is not worn by those who are not entitled to it. Sufficient for two jackets will be supplied to each man.”

… and was refined by Army Council Instruction No. 2075 of 3 November 1916:

“1. The term ‘wounded’ refers only to those officers and soldiers whose names have appeared or may hereafter appear in casualty lists rendered by the Adjutant General’s office at a base overseas, or by the G.O.C. any force engaged in active operations. Reports in hospital lists are not to be regarded as authoritative for this purpose.

2. Officers and men reported ‘wounded – gas,’ or ‘Wounded – shock, shell,’ are entitled to the distinction.“

** the gilding metal version commonly seen during the war was not issued and had to be purchased my the men themselves. Unlike the issued braid that as mentioned had to be stitched on, it had two brass loops secured in place by a cotter pin and so could be removed, which became increasingly important following the introduction of an organised laundering and delousing system, whereby soldiers handed in soiled jackets that were then replaced by a clean one after the soldier had bathed/showered. The jackets were steamed clean in large metal vats.

as part of his time in Egypt it looks like he was seconded to Sudan, appearing in the 1917 list of appointments (Durham Uni is my go to place for Sudan info)

W.S. Lennon transferred to the Sudan Government as 2nd Inspector, Dongola, 18/2/17

London Gazette
www.thegazette.co.uk
Temp. Maj. W. S. Lennon, E. Dub. Fus.,
is transfd. to Gen. List for service with
Egyptian Army. 18th Feb. 1917.

London Gazette
www.thegazette.co.uk
The undermentioned relinquish their
domains. on completion of service : —
Temp. Maj. W. S. Lennon, 16th Oct.
1919, and retains the rank of Maj.

On my next trip to the UK National Archives I will take a copy of his service record. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Rejoined the RIC on 16/10/1919, posted to Downpatrick 1/11/1919. Left the RIC on 1/9/1920 restarting with Sudan Govt on 2/9/1920.

He appears to have collected a few items in Sudan that are now in the Pitt Rivers Museum e.g. web.prm.ox.ac.uk

I have a few research interests that touch on Sudan, including one that links back to the NLI Easter Rising record for the Commandant at Arbour Hill johnny-doyle.blogspot.com

Issued By Order of the Lord Lieutenant from Dublin Castle on September 12, 1916, the change occurred just five months after the 1916 Easter Rising to streamline telegraph, railway, and military communications with London

We started 1916 on Dublin Standard Time, GMT-25 min. Then in May, Irish Summer Time, GMT+35.

Then GMT.

The 35-Minute Clock Adjustment

The reason the poster instructs the public to put their clocks back by exactly 35 minutes (more precisely, 34 minutes and 39 seconds) instead of a clean 25 minutes comes down to a scheduling coincidence with the end of British Summer Time:
1. In May 1916, the United Kingdom introduced its first-ever Daylight Saving Time ("Summer Time") to ration fuel during World War I. Ireland was forced to move its clocks forward by 1 hour as well, maintaining its 25-minute offset behind London.
2. When the UK prepared to wind its clocks back by 60 minutes to return to winter time on October 1, 1916, authorities decided to permanently assimilate Irish time with British time.
3. To seamlessly erase the 25-minute gap while simultaneously applying the 60-minute winter rollback, Irish clocks only needed to be turned back by 35 minutes (60 minutes - 25 minutes = 35 minutes).

Political Impact

The timing of the law caused significant political friction. Coming just five months after the 1916 Easter Rising, many Irish nationalists viewed the forced synchronization as an act of cultural assimilation and a direct attack on Irish national identity. Prominent republican figures, including Countess Markievicz, openly criticized the abolition of Dublin Mean Time. Despite the historical controversy, the unified time structure was kept intact by the Irish Free State after independence for the sake of synchronized cross-border trade, rail transit, and telegraph communication.

"One Cork Councillor argued in 1916 that changing Ireland's time zone would impact the feeding time of cows “with very disadvantageous results.” ...
... " The change was not well accepted. Countess Constance Markiewicz wrote to a Republican lawyer in England claiming that the Irish people were enraged that English time was being forced upon them. She said that the change, on top of many other things the English had done since the Rising earlier that year, would encourage the Irish people to support Sinn Féin. ... ..."

From - www.irishcentral.com

The Lord Lieutenant in question was the last one:

Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne

Niall McAuley This chap...

12 September 1916 was a Tuesday ...

beachcomber australia So, not the current last Sunday in October

Snap! via State Library of New South Wales

22 June 1925 was a Monday ...

This might be him in the USA. Irish Independent 21st September 1940:

Further on in the article it states that

Father O'Keefe is the son of Mr. and Mrs. O'Keefe. Kilfinane,

BTW that's Kilfinane with only 2 Ns.

O'KEEFE KiLFINANE DOG NEWS
The Sunday Independent of 18th October 1959 reported that:

A near-blind terrier, owned by Mr. WIlliam O'Keefe, Corner House, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick, is 21 years old - the oldest dog in Ireland.

[Aside] I wonder if these folk are the ancestors of Eddie O'Keefe of "Je suits une baguette!" fame at the 2022 World Cup?
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Sadly he died in 2025 ... www.facebook.com

ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq Monday added, and John Spooner, one n removed.

I'm fascinated by the woman standing, five from the right. She has the shiniest hair we've ever seen!

22 O'Keeffes in Kilfinnane (3 Ns in the census and OS maps!) in 1911:
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The O'Keeffe Family (Corner House) Kilfinane

“The tall man in the back row is Eugene o Sullivan . He was teacher at boys school”

Can’t find him in census

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Noting the Rev. J.H. O'Keeffe in John Spooner 's clip, here is the birth record of John Henry O'Keeffe, in 1896 to John O'Keeffe, shopkeeper of Kilfinane, and wife Ellen née Taylor.

Here he is in the 1901 census

Looks like a 1955 Oldsmobile - wow!

Lingayen, Pangasinan, Philippines

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The wonderful market building is still there in Preston!
Streetview: maps.app.goo.gl

Location Preston Market

www.preston.gov.uk

The newly elected Liberal government introduced the 1906 Education Bill to bring more state control over religious education in schools, favoring a non-denominational approach.
The Catholic community across England—with Lancashire and Preston showing a particularly strong, united front—vigorously opposed the bill. They argued it undermined the fundamental right to have distinct Catholic schools staffed by Catholic teachers for Catholic children.
Following massive public protests like this one and intense resistance from the Catholic Church, the bill was ultimately rejected by the House of Lords and never became law.

I wonder what they would make of our Educate Together Schools?

The meeting at the covered market took place on 20th May. The Lancashire Evening Post reported on it the next day. The article began:

CATHOLIC PROTEST.
THOUSANDS CONDEMN AN “ILLIBERAL AND TYRANNICAL” MEASURE
MEMORABLE DEMONSTRATION AT PRESTON.
Not within the religious life of Preston has there been such a remarkable demonstration as that made by the Catholics of the town yesterday in defence of their schools and in condemnation of the Government’s Education Bill. It is impossible accurately to gauge the numbers those who gathered under and near the Covered Market and within its neighbourhood. It was officially stated that there were 30,000 Catholics present, and this number wa.s swelled by the presence of thousands of others drawn by sympathy and curiosity.

While the demonstration was essentially Catholic, having been organised the local Catholic Parents’ Education League, it was voluntarily participated in by many adherents the Anglican Church, who, feeling that a common cause was being espoused, raised their voice in harmony in vigorously protesting against what they characterised as the Government’s attempt to confiscate their schools.

In the Preson Herald the estimate of the numbers of those present was 50,000.

There were processions with banners from each of the Catholic churches in the town, which converged at the covered market.

Rory Sherlock Suck Diesel Thank you both for the exact location in Preston.

John Spooner So the postcards were printed in short order then, if this was winging its way to John Redmond 5 days later.

Shame the printer's name does not appear on the back.

According to AI:

"The photographer behind the prominent 1906 series of social and topographical postcards captured around Preston (including scenes around the Covered Market, Lancaster Road, and local events like the Pot Fair) is George Cross.
Another highly prominent local photographer who captured real photo postcards (RPPCs) of crowds, market spaces, and public parks in Preston during this exact era (often stamped with "G.H.") was G. Howarth (George Howarth), whose studio was located on Lancaster Road, right by the Market Place."

That said, I can't find anything definite about the photographer.

Another picture of the protesters.

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And here, according to the Preston Digital Archive it says 1908.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons One of the speakers, the Rev. Father Kelly (English Martyrs), said that Mr. Birrell (who had introduced the bill in the Commons) had been "deluged with letters and postcards from Catholic parents in every part of the country (cheers). And the man had lost his temper".Preston Herald)

Perhaps Mr. Birrell could expect a further deluge of rapidly-produced postcards to test his temper after the Preston demonstration.

As for how 30,000 to 50,000 people could hear the speeches, the Preston Herald explains:

There were seven platforms in all, four being situated under the Covered Market, two on the open space between the Police-station and the Sessions House, and the other on the Fish Market immediately behind the Post Office".

Each stage was presided over by a layman, with several speakers.

At the end of proceedings,

At a given signal a bugle call was sounded by the St. Vincent Boys Band and immediately the speech making ceased. The resolution was then put from each platform, and was carried with the utmost enthusiasm, the cheering lasting for several minutes.

The audience then sang "Faith of our Fathers" and afterwards gave a patriotic rendering of "God save the King".

27 April 1883 was a Friday ...
(Wishing it Was a Wednesday)

A "busk" is the rigid element of a corset placed at the center front to keep it straight.

'Poirotte' - "An old regional French term for a wild, soft, or overripe pear"
The corsets made people pear-shaped!

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Mr Theodore Poirotte also made exquisite shoes.
Via Northampton Museums

Looking at marriages and births, there are quite a few possible Mrs. Storeys.

A mention in 'Finnegan's Wake' (BookII, Chapter I, page 235)
via AI

"Lady Marmela Shortbred will walk in for supper with her marchpane switch on, her necklace of almonds and her poirette Sundae dress with bracelets of honey and her cochineal hose with the caramel dancings, the briskly best from Bootiestown, and her suckingstaff of ivory-mint."

• Poirette: A clever double play on words. It refers to Poire (French for pear, invoking the pear-shaped dessert Poire Belle Hélène), while simultaneously referencing Poirette, a highly popular, real-world brand of women's corsets and luxury undergarments active during the era Joyce wrote the book.
• Sundae Dress: A pun on "Sunday dress" (one's finest church clothing), transformed into an ice cream sundae to match the surrounding dessert motifs like marchpane (marzipan), almonds, honey, and caramel.

The arms at the top belong to the city of Paris, rather than Poirette.

"TOSSED BY THE WAVES, BUT NEVER SUNK" is an odd tag for an inland city.

Top middle is the coat of arms of Paris, and the city motto is "FLVCTVAT NEC MERCITVR" ("[She] is tossed [by the waves], but does not sink").
See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Paris

Ed. Snap @ The McAuley!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons the postage stamp could be an early form of ‘stamp duty’

Historically, a physical revenue stamp had to be glued, embossed, or stamped onto a legal document to make it valid

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_duty

Edit:
British Customs and Inland Revenue Act of 1881, the British government legally authorized select postage stamps to dual-function as valid revenue tax stamps.
The act mandated a universal 1-penny tax duty on any commercial retail receipt or cash transaction totaling £2 or more. Because Mrs. Story’s custom corset order came to a high total of £3 and 2 shillings, Theodore Poirotte's business was legally required to buy, affix, and cancel this stamp to prove the transaction tax had been paid to the Inland Revenue.

The Handwritten Cancellation

To comply with revenue regulations and ensure the stamp could never be peeled off and illegally reused on a piece of mail, the shop clerk manually "canceled" it with an ink pen at the exact time of payment

State Library of New South Wales Indeed, but who knows what colour this particular flag is, given it's a B&W photograph that's been colourised? Of more interest to me is that the 'wrapping' can't been done with the front of the flag always showing.

Bee Aviation (Beecraft) Wee Bee

Thanks swanq, we'll add some of this information to the catalog record.

Thanks swanq, that appears to be him and he was in the US in 1908 and published a number of articles in newspapers.

Thanks swanq, we'll add some of this info to the catalog record.

Thanks swanq, we'll add some of this info to the catalog record.

Some fine hounds there! The photography quality, for that period, is amazing as well. Folk can hold still for an historic exposer time, but the HOUNDS? Such sharp detail, coming from an avid photographer myself, well done to the one who made this piece of art!

SPAD fighter (VII or XIII)
Stig

Caudron G.III
Photo is reversed
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Looks like one of the modified Burgess H that Grover Loening did for the US Signal Corp.
They are tricky to ID since after modifications they looked very different from each other
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Breguet XIV of 9th Aero Sq in Oct 1918
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from history of Z2326:
AAEE (Aircraft Armament Experiment Establishment) 40mm gun trials 14-4-42

Possibly at Boscombe Downs

timelapse halo on her finger?? I doubt that very much.

... not sure if it's the best description - but there is a torch spinning on a string and the photo has a slow shutter speed to create the halo effect.

this image shows the process

State Library of New South Wales A timelapse is the process of multiple photographs taken over a period of time, each one an instant after the other. This is not a timelapse, but instead it is a long exposure, ie a single photograph, whereby the shutter is open for a period of time and thus capturing all and any light appearing in that time. Being a long exposure, this photograph informs 2 things: 1. The model had to keep incredibly still. 2. The torch was rotating very fast, otherwise the model would have had great difficulty staying still and thus staying in focus. Usually 5 seconds is the absolute max we can rely on subjects to 'keep still'.

Wow such a cool photo.

This is the old Northern Counties Station (often known to Belfast folk as "The LMS") at York Street(not York Road). By 1959 it was under the control of the Ulster Transport Authority and is seen here with visitors from the IRRS. I can name Clifton Flewitt (4th from left) and the chap in the blazer with his hands in his pockets and wide grin is the late Bob Hunter who passed away recently.