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I think it’s like yesterday’s photo, no longer standing

maps.app.goo.gl/2Cua1QdFpgFA532C6

It's not on the 1830s 6", but appears on the 1900ish 25"

Gone by the 1930s 6" Cassini, so probably destroyed in 1920?

I think the RIC men at the door are wearing pill box hats, so before 1900.

The friary behind is from 1867, no help with dates

We saw nearby 3397 before, 1891-1903

Niall McAuley Roughly going with 1891-1899 then.

10 Constables, an Acting Sergeant, Head Sergeant and District Inspector John Henry in the 1901 census.

Niall McAuley Farmers' sons, almost to a man.

Niall McAuley Is it still there in the 1911?

An RIC roll for the years 1919 to 1922 includes ‘Killarney’

www.tapatalk.com/groups/ricroll/roll-by-surname-kerry-t33...

It’s proving difficult to locate any info regarding the fate of the Killarney Barracks, but came across this map showing the extent of RIC barracks and huts across Ireland.

www.rte.ie/documents/history/2021/01/u7.-document-pack-p....

The numbers are truly staggering, more than half of the 1300 open in 1919 had closed by 1921

For Kerry alone

www.swilson.info/ricdmp1890.php?co=Kerry&coid=18

Also found this directory of photographers on same site, plus lots of other stuff

www.swilson.info/photodb.php

Suck Diesel John Henry is still in Killarney in 1911 with wife Catherine, being coy about his occupation, usual for RIC men.

The barracks is listed on Fair Hill, and the lads are all occupied as Farmer's sons again.

Niall McAuley Interesting, the shrinkage of bases had begun.
Fair Hill is also the location of the Court House, had they relocated thereabouts?

maps.app.goo.gl/ign64x7Y4q1Wtd2a9

Here’s John Henry again, but in house 28.3, this looks like the new barracks

"Easter Eve, 1910" was Saturday 26 March ...
via - www.calendar-12.com/holidays/easter/1910

National Library of Ireland on The Commons No, the photo is of Alfred Perceval Graves -
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Perceval_Graves

Sometimes Flickr is amazing! Here is Francis Joseph Bigger, looking larger than life in a kilt,
via Irish Jesuits
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joseph_Bigger

“Francis Joseph Bigger (1863 – 9 December 1926[1][2]) was an Irish antiquarian, revivalist, solicitor, architect, author, editor, Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. His collected library, now distributed across several public institutions, comprised more than 18,000 books, journals, letters, photographs, sketches, maps, and other materials. His house in Belfast was a gathering place for Irish nationalist politicians, artists, scholars, and others. He was a prolific sponsor and promoter of Gaelic culture, authored many works of his own, founded (or co-founded) several institutions, and revived and edited the Ulster Journal of Archaeology”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Joseph_Bigger

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And here is photographer Robert Lyttle at home in Belfast in the 1911 census.

“Alfred Perceval Graves (22 July 1846 – 27 December 1931), was an Anglo-Irish poet, songwriter and folklorist. He was the father of British poet and critic Robert Graves.
He of the photo!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Perceval_Graves

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Bigger is not always better, especially when you share a surname with a contemporary

“The Belfast politician Joseph Biggar changed the spelling of his surname from Bigger to Biggar (when he converted to Catholicism), which caused people some confusion in the spelling of Francis Joseph Bigger's surname”

A couple of weeks before the photo's date, both gentlemen headlined the celebrations to celebrate Sir Samuel Ferguson's centenary. Belfast News-Letter - Thursday 10 March 1910:

3 months later, when your phone number was less than your house number.
Lisburn Standard - Saturday 23 July 1910

Robert Lyttle is at large on Flickr!
via gt_hawk63

Much better picture than the one on his wikipedia page, replaced!

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? Central Station...in the area between the city and country trains

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“is that Timmy against the wall its looks very like him and he is about the right age”

www.facebook.com/MallowDevelopmentPartnership/photos/mall...

maps.app.goo.gl/mFuYHxLQLy5DZiup8

Much changed, and not for the better, should provide an end date

Not the same building, the replacement from 1930

www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/20815...

Suck Diesel No disrespect to the replacement 1930 building, but why the replacement?!

17. The Town Hall
The present town hall was built in 1926 on the site of the one destroyed by fire on 28 September 1920, in reprisal for the capture of Mallow Barracks. Prior to the first Town Hall a drapery business was conducted on the site by Mr. Rafferty, from whom it was purchased by the Urban District Council.

18. Fitzgerald Monument
Erected by public subscription at a cost of £375 to the memory of John Joseph Fitzgerald.
It was unveiled by Wm O'Brien on October 13th 1907. John Joseph Fitzgerald (1872-1906) was born in Shortcastle and became a teacher at the Patrician Academy. He was the first Chairman of Mallow Urban District Council and was also a member of Cork County Council.

via - www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/field-club-initiat...

So between October 1907 and September 1920 ??

beachcomber australia Ah, of course. Should have thought of the War of Independence.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons It has lain idle for more than a decade, due to fire safety concerns

www.independent.ie/regionals/cork/news/cork-town-hall-has...

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In June 2024 via Tim Sheerman-Chase

One reason why the fire was so destructive. Cornishman - Wednesday 29 September 1920:

MALLOW TOWN HALL BLAZING.
CORK FIRE BRIGADE RESTRAINED BY CURFEW ORDERS.
Cork Fire Brigade received a telephone message from Mallow at 1.30 this morning, reporting the Town Hall and Main Street to be burning fiercely. The brigade replied that they could not go to the fire, as they had no permit under the Curfew order.

Those posters? Cork Opera House tended to advertise rail links to Mallow . 1903 Performances included "Carmen", "Maritana"

I can make out the words Maritana, Martha and Carmen on the poster.. all operas.. Joseph O' Mara, a son of the Limerick bacon magnate was a big name in opera at the time.. might have been him.

I can make out 3 words on the poster (thanks to Megazoom) -Maritana, Carmen & Martha.

I found an advert in the Strabane Weekly News - Saturday 24 September 1910, advertising performances of The Celebrated Elster-Grime Opera Co, whose programme included Monday: Maritana; Tuesday: The Bohemian Girl; Wednesday: Les Cloches de Corneville; Thursday: Martha; Friday: Carmen.

And I think "Elster-Grime Opera Co" might be on the 2nd line of the poster (in that the length of words fits).

My excitement was dampened somewhat, however, when I spotted the line that said it was the 10th year of the tour, and further delving found that the 3 pieces mentioned on the poster were part of the company's repertory as early as 1904.

So how long was the Elster Grime Opera Co touring?

It was still active in 1914 (with Maritana and Carmen) (Galway Express - Saturday 19 December 1914).

In 1915 a Mr H H Stevens "who is with the Elster-Grimes Opera Co (currently in Dundalk)" was knocked off his bicycle (Banbridge Chronicle - Wednesday 28 April 1915) and I can't find any mention after that, other than reminiscences.

In the Irish Independent - Wednesday 12 April 1916 Walter Hastings, a pianist formerly with Elster-Grime Opera Co, advertised his availability for work "open to Engagement, Opera, Drama, Picture, Play", which suggests the Opera Co was no more.

So I'd conclude that the date of the photo is 1915-ish at the latest.

Do you suppose the girls did Irish Dancing? The boys are shy and suspicious.

Though not an implicit believer in the lurid story narrated (or the eggsniping transaction for that matter despite William Tell and the Lazarillo-Don Cesar de Bazan incident depicted in Maritana on which occasion the former’s ball passed through the latter’s hat) having detected a discrepancy between his name (assuming he was the person he represented himself to be and not sailing under false colours after having boxed the compass on the strict q.t. somewhere) and the fictitious addressee of the missive which made him nourish some suspicions of our friend’s bona fides nevertheless it reminded him in a way of a longcherished plan he meant to one day realise some Wednesday or Saturday of travelling to London via long sea not to say that he had ever travelled extensively to any great extent but he was at heart a born adventurer though by a trick of fate he had consistently remained a landlubber except you call going to Holyhead which was his longest.

From our old Flickr, of fond memory...

From them out the back

“Reprisal burning, Mallow, January 1921
A street in Mallow town, 9 January 1921. Depicting three shop buildings destroyed by fire by Black and Tan troops as a reprisal for the IRA taking of Mallow Barracks on the previous 28 September. Depicts the tin huts erected in their place, where business carried on.
Photograph by W.D. Hogan of 56 Henry Street, Dublin.”

www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Raids...

Capture of the military barracks provokes reprisals

Expecting reprisals, the column moved to Lombardstown that night, and positions were taken up around the local co-operative creamery as it was the custom of the British to wreak their vengeance on isolated country creameries after incidents such as what had just occurred. The Mallow raid, however, was to have greater repercussions than the destruction of a creamery and co-operative stores. The following night, large detachments of troops from Buttevant and Fermoy entered Mallow. They rampaged through the town, burning and looting at will. High over the town, the night sky was red with the flames of numerous burning buildings.

The raiders first descended upon the Town Hall. As in the majority of towns, the building was the centre of the administrative and social life of the district. A lorry load of uniformed soldiers, frenzied and officer less, gathered in front of it. Petrol was liberally sprayed all over the large building. Within a short space of time the hall was a mass of flames. Warming to their task the British next set fire to the drapery establishment of Mr. J.J. Forde, the Bank Place residence of Town Clerk, Mr. Wrixon and with it the pharmacy of his son, which was in the same building. Firing their weapons wildly, the British continued their orgy of destruction. Up in the flames went the hotel of Mr. George Hanover, the boot and shoe establishment of Mr. Thomas Quinn, the merchant tailor's shop and residence of Mr. R. M. Quinn, the drapery shop of Mrs. Cronin, the residence of Mr. Stephen Dwyer at West End, the garage and premises of Mr. W. J. Thompson and finally the giant creamery of Cleeves which gave employment to three hundred people in Mallow. Townspeople ran through the blazing streets, in search of refuge. A number of women and children were accorded asylum in the nearby convent schools. Another group of terrified women, some with children in arms, took refuge in the cemetery at the rear of St. Mary's Church, where they knelt or lay, above the graves. It was a night of terror such as which had never before been endured by the people of Mallow.

homepage.eircom.net/~corkcounty/mallow.html

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"Jarabe Tapatío, often referred to as the Mexican hat dance, is the national dance of Mexico."

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SELCAL is a contracted form of selective calling. It uses an international standard tone signaling system that is almost identical to a Motorola fire station alerting system called Quik Call. For over ocean operations, for example, it allows flight crew to mute the radio so it's not necessary to listen to aircraft hundreds of miles away. If air traffic contol needs to speak with you, the SELCAL lights and the radio buzzes or beeps.

Radios were huge back in this era. These are the controls and the radio would be mounted nearby where there was more room. These were high frequency (HF, 2-30 MHz.) radios. PH="phone" or voice. "CW" is morse code. I'm not sure about 1960s but HF was mostly used for aeronatical en route communications over oceans in recent years. Aircraft periodically called air traffic control to report altitude, heading, and other conditions. If the plane disappeared, this facilitates a starting point for the search. Fortunately this is very rare.

We're not sure, but this looks like the feed for that radar antenna behind the nose radome in many of the Convair airliner pictures. There are several nearby pictures of waveguides (for different bands) that look like they're for the nose radar. One says only to use with the matching preamplifier.

This looks like a metal plating shop or chromate conversion coating tanks. Flickr users: please tag this if you agree or comment on what we're looking at here.

A very poor quality scan of what looks like security (?) dispatch. I suggest throwing out images of this quality.