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Context: Part of the economic boycott of Belfast and British-linked goods during the Irish War of Independence (1919–1921), when republican forces and local committees targeted northern and British commercial interests.

A bit of Cork history here about Messrs. Dobbin Ogilvie.

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29 November 1921 was a Tuesday ...

“Freeman’s Journal, 11 June 1921

In August 1920 Dáil Éireann ordered a boycott of Belfast goods and a withdrawal of funds from the city’s banks in support of Catholic workers expelled from the shipyards. A Department of Boycott was created in 1921 and hundreds of local boycott committees were established across Ireland. Firms breaking the boycott were fined and the IRA carried out its own boycott patrols. This notice, printed in the Freeman’s Journal, shows how Nationalists encouraged Irish citizens to support the action. The boycott officially ended in January 1922 with the announcement of the first agreement between James Craig and Michael Collins, when Craig promised to aid the return of the expelled Catholic workers.


Belfast Trade Boycott
Fourteen Points for the Irish People
Do you approve of the Starvation of Men, Women and Children because they are Catholics?
Do you approve of pouring petrol over a child of six and attempting to set fire to her because her mother is a Catholic?
Do you approve of the burning of the Catholic Presbytery and the Desecration of the Catholic Graveyard at Lisburn?
Do you approve of the Orange Mob which forced the Nuns of Lisburn to flee for their lives?
Do you approve of the expulsion of the Catholic Religion from every school in the Six Counties?
Do you approve of the Orange doctrine that No Catholic has a right to live in the Six Counties?
Do you approve of the attempted Murder of a Protestant in Belfast on 24th May, 1921, because he was suspected of being a Sinn Feiner?
Do you approve of the murderous Orange attacks on helpless prisoners going under armed escort to Ballykinlar?
Do you approve of the expulsion of the Sinn Fein Personating Agents by Orangmen from the Polling Booths during the Partition Election on 24th May, 1921?
Do you approve of the burning of De Valera’s effigy at Shaw’s Bridge, Belfast (vide FREEMAN’s Journal, 1/6/’21)?
Do you approve of the Belfast Corporation’s “Tolerance” in denying the use of the Ulster Hall for Election Meetings to all but Orangemen?
Do you approve of Orange barbarities and atrocities?
Do you approve of Partition?
Do you approve of Orange tactics generally in its fight against Christianity and Ireland?
IF SO BUY BELFAST GOODS

IF NOT BOYCOTT ALL BELFAST GOODS

Government of Ireland Act
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Centenary Historical Advisory Panel
Irish Citizens Encouraged to Support Belfast Trade Boycott
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During the Belfast Boycott (1920–1922), the Central Committee maintained strict economic criteria for blacklisting companies. While this specific circular simply orders the names to be erased without printing a prolonged legal brief for each, the historical rules of enforcement and inline context clues indicate three main reasons names were removed from the blacklist:

1. Compliance and Guarantees of Local Sourcing

The primary reason names were removed from the blacklist was satisfactory compliance with the Dáil Éireann Department of Boycott guidelines. To get a company name removed, the business owners typically had to:
• Sever commercial ties with Unionist-owned wholesale firms and manufacturing hubs based in Belfast.
• Sign formal undertakings or guarantees proving they were no longer importing, stocking, or distributing goods originating from the boycotted areas.
• Source alternative goods from southern Irish firms or approved non-Belfast manufacturers

Boycott enforcement. This appeared in the South Gloucestershire Gazette on Christmas Eve 1921.

In June 1922 the Director of Boycott was named as a Commandant Henderson. He was involved in an incident during a raid on Ferguson's Motors. This from the Grimsby Daily Telegraph on 27 June 1922.

Re Dobbin, Ogilvie & Co.: www.househistories.ie

This image was published in the SD paper. Names: Top: Betty Lambert and Gina Pournelle; Middle Gertrude Lockwood, Elsie Watson, Aileen Saunders, Isabelle McCrae, Dottie Sanders; Front Gerry Vickers & Terry Vasques

I can help here - thanks to
Bernard Healy's comments. Dermot Browner was my grandfather! (by marriage) and worked in NYC for many years as a hospital administrator, where he met my grandmother (a nurse). They ultimately retired to Pensacola, FL.

He told us he gave up opera because he wasn't getting parts he wanted and went to do something new. I have a couple pictures of him, one a photograph of his Mephistopheles costume and another painted by Joe Kelley (as Don Quixote maybe?)

He loved Scrabble and was a sore winner AND loser haha but I loved him. He was delightfully dry and witty and every now and then would sing us Edelweiss or another tune if something made him remember. We went as a family to Ireland in 1999 to see his sister Kitty and cousins for a few weeks and he passed away in 2000.

Suck Diesel A great poem.

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Our Lady Of Atonement Cathedral, Baguio City Philippines
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16.412962, 120.598480

Himoga-an Bridge, Western Nautical Hwy
Sagay City
Negros Occidental

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Letran College, Manila, Philippines

San Lazaro Hippodrome, Manila, Philippines

Manila, Philippines

Zamboanga, Philippines

Manila, Philippines

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Front of the Pangasinan Provincial Capitol, Alvear East, Poblacion, Lingayen, Pangasinan, Philippines....16.033633356919097, 120.23171021039403

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Burnham Park, Baguio City Philippines.....
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Makes me think of Last Picture Show.

A wonderful photo, fantastic.

More Muckle family stuff - freepages.rootsweb.com
I haven't ploughed through it all; AI says Mr Muckle was a grocer on New Street.

WR&S suggests early years of the date range

Hmm ... This six-view including above photo has "20/3/13" - catalogue.nli.ie

But another six-view (rectangular) has "14/2/16" - catalogue.nli.ie

Which implies the photo is before 1913. That was likely from the "WR&S" imprint.

Seem to be a lot of benches ?

No Ulster Bank far left, dates to 1922.

While there is a sign for Petrolile Safety Lamps at John Angus's shop there is no Pratts Motor Spirit signs visible on the street so date range is more likely to be 1899/1900.

Niall McAuley Ha! I was just looking at the Ulster Bank renovations - it was on the telly! c60design.co.uk

beachcomber australia Probably the origin of the phrase that you're so hungry you could eat the half side of a cow!

Looking at street directories at Lennon Wylie, Atkinson not here in 1901, present in 1907.

Likewise, William Atkinson, Draper, is in the 1911 but not the 1901 census in Donaghadee.

I added this image to his Wikipedia page.

reged Thanks, changed the info on the picture

Douglas A-26C (if pre 1948) or B-26C (post 1948)
Most likely taken in Japan where 38BG moved in Nov 1945.
Unit was de-activated 1 April 1949.
Stig

The only idea I can come up with here is that it is most likely a Supermarine Spitfire belonging to W/Cdr Clive Caldwell, who claimed both German and Italian aircraft in North Africa before going to the Far East where he claimed a further seven Japanese aircraft. If that is correct the pic was taken post 20 Aug 1945
Stig

bobgbennett Niall McAuley Thank you for definitely giving us John Fizsimons!

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