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It's a beautifully shot portrait with excellent subject background separation. That separation suggests an open aperature and therefore a fast shutter speed - so the dog's leg couldn't have moved.
I think the 'ghost' is the original position of the dog's tail and maybe this was too 'between it's legs' for the owner. Seem's a bit bizarre to edit it but maybe this was a 2nd version and the owner ended up going for the original print as the edit was too obvious.
Also, I think it is an Irish wolfhound.

RealitySoSubtle Nice analysis of the shot, I have to admit that I would not have seen what you see in the technical details so thank you. It is a very nice shot and study of the handler and dog. It is indeed an Irish Wolfhound which has been the traditional mascot of the IG's! I didn't realise that they were posted to Waterford and always assumed that, as a Guards Regiment, they were posted in Britain. You live and learn.

You've mapped this at the old Artillery barracks, I think it is more likely the old Parade Ground at the Infantry barracks (since built on, also, too).

Niall McAuley Done! Thank you... :)

In 1917, the Irish Guards were certainly not posted to Waterford, they were up to their necks in it at the Western Front.

There's a great range of ages, some promising moustaches and some mature ones. They were no inter -cert classs at any rate. Look at the banding on the hurl of the young lad to the priests left? It is almost a lethal weapon with that metal banding. I had a hurl like that once and it was positively dangerous and a threat to life, it lasted for years but! The writing on the hurl held by the man third from the left in the middle row says "Coolagown" which is a place near Fermoy in Cork and seems to have had strong Waterford connections. See www.castlelyonsgaa.com/clubHistory.php

Best to remember that it was a teacher training college and thus attracted students from all over. Funny though, most people in Waterford never use the word hurl, except when throwing things. Hurley is the preferred description, Perhaps that explains a lot?

A wonderful old photo and taken at my old school. When I went here in the 70's there were boarders from all over the country there.

Paul O'Farrell Ah, a De La Salle boy! And desmondg47 when did it stop being a teacher training college?

I believe it was in 1936 when the Minister for Education Tom Derrig (FF) refused to have it made a constituent college of the NUI.

What a poseur!? ;)

Lucan Station Signal Box on old OSI map maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,703110,732793,7,9 The track diagram shows the next section, Clondalkin. No trace of Lucan Station on Google maps There might not have been mains electricity in the isolated signal box, only the electric telegraph instruments.

blackpoolbeach Thank you, now properly Flickr Mapped.

Must be casual Friday, the collar is undone with no tie!

Yes very little left of Lucan South, apart from one of the platform walls on the Down side. Through the window you can see the Baldonnell Siding, laid in 1918 to connect with a narrow gauge line to the nearby aerodrome during its construction. The siding remained long after, and was only removed when the cabin was closed and demolished in 1973.