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The film being shown is "Don't Go Near the Water".

The shot shows Keenan Wynn and Russ Tamblyn on screen

Thanks ceebee23. I know someone would be able to identify this movie. We'll add that information to the catalog record.

She is playing a zither, not a harp.

priscilla savary, thanks for pointing that out. The title of this photo comes from what was written on the back of another copy of it, www.loc.gov. If the photographer gave the photo a title, we usually use that. In the catalog record's Summary section we do say she is playing a zither.

Thomas Philips' 1685 map of Cork:

Within the City Walls (The Core Spine)The Main Spine (North & South Main Street): The central vertical street running straight through the heart of the walled oval, connecting the north and south sides of the river.Christ Church (Holy Trinity): Located off the main street inside the southern portion of the walls, noted as a principal medieval parish church.St. Peter’s Church: Situated toward the northern portion within the walls.The Central Bridge / Drawbridges: Splitting the central town into two distinct marshy sections.The Gates: North Gate Bridge and South Gate Bridge, controlling access into the fortified center from the suburbs.Outside the City Walls (Suburbs & Religious Houses)St. Fin Barre's Cathedral (St. Barry's): The large labeled church visible on the elevated ground to the south-west (left side of the map).Elizabeth Fort: The star-shaped, bastioned fort visible just north of St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral, overlooking the south channel approach.St. Francis Abbey: Labeled in the northern suburb across the river channel (top-right area).The Dominican Abbey / Abbey Isle: Located near Crosses Green on the south-west channels.

North is to the right. GoogleMapsSatellite, showing most of the buildings on the old map - www.google.com

[Aside] 1685 was an important year for music. Bach, Handel, and Scarlatti were all born in 1685. www.bachsocietybrasil.com

Wikipedia has an older 1545 map showing how soggy it was ...
See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cork

Edit - that Wiki page also has a 1714 map which marks the 'rectangular green area' as "Bowling Green".

What a beautiful map.

beachcomber australia [aside: Handel Cork Connection]

Handel’s “Messiah” in Cork.—It is of interest to place on record that Handel’s immortal oratorio “The Messiah”, which was first produced in Dublin, on April 13th, 1742, was given in Cork two years later. From a contemporary writer we learn that on December 6th, 1744, at St. Finbarr’s Cathedral, Cork, “The Messiah” was performed, under the direction of Mr. William Smyth. This performance elicited the attention of the Rev. Dr. Delacour, who, on December 26th, published a poem in praise of Handel “On hearing ‘The Messiah’ in Cork.” This Cork poet was the eldest son of John Delacour (grandson of Robert DeLacour) of Killowen, near Blarney, and was born on March 10th, 1709. His sister, Mary, married the Rev. Charles Bunworth— a great patron of harpers.
W. H. Grattan Flood

(Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, 1920, Vol. 26, No. 123, p. 40)

National Library of Ireland on The Commons
🎶 Hallelujah ! 🎶

Ancient? 1685 was almost yesterday! … 😂

The ‘city’ seems to lie mainly between the north and south branches of the River Lee, with several religious structures on the outskirts
The river also had many more branches back then, at least two connecting the north and south rivers
I wonder if The Grand Parade occupies one of these which was later filled in?

To answer my own question:
AI Overview
Grand Parade was originally a channel of the River Lee that defined the edge of Cork's medieval walled town. Reclaimed between 1774 and 1801, it was transformed into a tree-lined Georgian mall. Today, it is Cork’s widest street, home to the historic English Market and the 1906 National Monument.
[https://flic.kr/p/3ajRQH]
Reputed 1700s mooring post on the Grand Parade

2 October 1926 was a S S S Saturday ...

9 out of 32 are wearing spectacles (28.125 %).

beachcomber australia I was using my own spectacles to zoom in on their faces too. It's so interesting that even in a habit that was supposed to quash individuality, some personalities could not be suppressed.

Sisters of Mercy
“The sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone
They were waiting for me when I thought that I just can't go on
And they brought me their comfort and later they brought me this song
Oh, I hope you run into them, you who've been travelling so long”
youtu.be

The Sisters of Mercy were associated with St. Patrick's hospital in Waterford

Very n n n neatly arranged.

Which one is Sister Bernard Benedict?

At the inquest held on 8th October 1926 into the death of May Ryan by drowning earlier in the day at Tramore, Sister Bernard Benedict, Convent of Mercy, Waterford, was the first to give evidence, identifying the deceased. She had last seen her about 2 weeks previously.
(Waterford Standard - Wednesday 13 October 1926)

P.S. Poor Miss Ryan didn't drown. She suffered heart failure while swimming, according to the doctor at the scene, and this was the verdict of the inquest.

The Sisters of Mercy took ownership and managed St. Patrick's Hospital in Cashel, Co. Tipperary, in 1877, running it and providing healthcare for decades.
But more likely St. Patrick's Hospital in Waterford, the order took over the medical care of the workhouse there, which was later repurposed into St. Patrick's Hospital in 1921.

End of an era with closure of Mercy Convent on Military Rd, Waterford
www.waterford-news.ie

‘National Army’ implies date range 1922 to 1924

Suck Diesel Excellent, Eagle Eye, thank you! We love a good news poster.

Perhaps the Krazy Kataloguers were muddled with this one -
"[The Square, Kilcock, Co. Kildare]"
catalogue.nli.ie

If we can uncover the background to AWFUL SCENES, etc., we could narrow the date further?

I think it is Kilcock:
maps.app.goo.gl

beachcomber australia Probably so.

[aside: LOVE the stripey door protector next door to Connolly's!]

Rory Sherlock Thank you. Kilcock then. Just not Connolly's Drapers.

Perhaps someone can research the BP sign (better than I can) as I had the impression it dates from the 1960s. This would be very much at odds with the photograph though!

Thomas Calderbank It would indeed. Hopefully some BP information will be forthcoming!

Ouled-Nail woman, Biskra, Algeria. The Ouled-Nail are an Arab tribe and a tribal confederation living in the Ouled-Nail Range, Algeria. From 'The living races of mankind; Volume 2' by Henry Neville Hutchinson (1901).
archive.org

suckindeesel Excellent! My monocle suggests the photographer is Neurdeis Frères?

‘ Neurdein Frères’
www.getty.edu

Suck Diesel You're certainly sucking diesel today!

"Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off."
Coco Chanel

beachcomber australia ....only one sock :-)

Flickr is fab....now I know what a "pennanular broach" is and how to use them properly....
I have seen a flickr page, ages ago, on which the user had posted lots of photos of people taken in the late 19th oC - early 20th oC from what's now Algeria...from the collections of a French ethnographer- I'll try to find it again.
Even then his peers found his methods, particularly towards photo-ing women, totally thoughtless.

Foxglove Oh, if you could find it, that'd be great!

flic.kr/p/29zrawG
one was Jean Besancenot, during the 1930s, presented in this stream.

He has a great smile and a wonderful laugh

Beautiful smile. Thank you for sharing it!

Neighbours either side in the IMP catalogue are both later, with electric trams.

As was his frequent habit, Mr French / Lawrence and his trusty tripod were three or four stories high across the street. The Royal plate - catalogue.nli.ie - is a wider view, and shows a chunk of balustrade in the bottom right hand corner. Balustrade is still there, but Mr French's eyrie has been rebuilt. Pigeon view - maps.app.goo.gl

And whilst we are there, here is the 3D view. I am surprised that the Provident building is not very thick/deep, and there is a lot of open space behind the grand facade (like victorians!) ...
www.google.com

John Spooner I think the Excursion notice begins with Saturday 24

The DIA seems to indicate Nov 1902 for the opening. The 1901 street directory confirms 4, 5, 6. Scottish Provident Buildings in course of erection

So 1903 or 4. or 5 Sometime in 1905 the trams were electrified, so it is before 1906.

So Sat 24 could be Jan or Oct 1903, Sep or Dec 1904, Jun 1905

Niall McAuley I think the start of electrification could have been as late as December 1905?
The process took some time no doubt, nothing happening in our photo though

Thanks from the Dancing Outside Group. Beautiful

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitascope
"Vitascope was an early film projector first demonstrated in 1895 by Charles Francis Jenkins and Thomas Armat. They had made modifications to Jenkins' patented Phantoscope, which cast images via film and electric light onto a wall or screen. The Vitascope is a large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast images. The images being cast are originally taken by a kinetoscope mechanism onto gelatin film. Using an intermittent mechanism, the film negatives produced up to fifty frames per second. The shutter opens and closes to reveal new images. This device can produce up to 3,000 negatives per minute.[1] With the original Phantoscope and before he partnered with Armat, Jenkins displayed the earliest documented projection of a filmed motion picture in June 1894 in Richmond, Indiana.
Armat independently sold the Phantoscope to The Kinetoscope Company. The company realized that their Kinetoscope would soon be a thing of the past with the rapidly advancing proliferation of early cinematic engineering. By 1897, just two years after the Vitascope was first demonstrated, the technology was being nationally adopted. Hawaii and Texas were among the first to incorporate the Vitascope into their picture shows."

Great picture and congratulations on Explore.

Charming

Great

wow

Sensational picture and a history lesson. Thank you for sharing..