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Just to draw your attention to a recent comment on the below image posted 7 years ago. It gives a clear date when the image was taken and other information that will prove useful. Have a look?

April 20 1916 according to - www.adams.ie/SECRET-ORDERS-ISSUED-TO-MILITARY-OFFICERS-kn... Yours for €1,000.00

From the above link - "... The Nationalist weekly paper, New Ireland, edited by Patrick J. Little (1884-1963), published the text of the document, a single sheet handbill entitled ''Secret Orders issued to Military Officers'' in its issue for Saturday 22 April 1916 (vol. II no. 49), just two days before the Easter Rising began. However MacNeill discovered, sometime around 20 April that the 'Castle Document' was a fake. He put an advertisement in the Irish Independent newspaper which told all volunteers that 'No parades, marches or other movements of the Volunteers will take place.' This cancellation caused the IRB to move back the rebellion one day to Easter Monday - 24 April, 1916. Many rural Volunteers, who had come to town on Sunday only to hear the rebellion was cancelled, returned home. Although all the Rising's leaders now realised that they were doomed, they still went ahead with the plans for rebellion. There are only one or two recorded copies of this important document in public records. Very few can have survived as the printing would appear to have been small and the method of distribution via newspapers aborted. None of the textbook histories actually quote from it but rather paraphrase its content.. In terms of this identification, the only full printing of the was in the last issue of New Ireland before its suppression just prior to the Rising. ... ... "

"and what was the result of the operation?" The divided Ireland you enjoy to this day.

So this is the actual text of the Castle Document forgery?

Photo is flipped horizontal. If desired, correct at your convenience. Calendar suggests this was shot in April, 1965.

Note the toy (Luger?) gun and hand grenade on the wall.

Perhaps not a picture of the Déise, but of the Rathdowney GAA team in Laois? Rathdowney won the Laois County Final in 1911, however April would seem a bit early for a final. The jerseys certainly seem to match the ones in the photo in the link I've added below. If it is of Rathdowney, they won the county final in 1911 Rathdowney, 7-1, Clonaslee, nil, as mentioned on page 25 (38 in the pdf) of laoisgaa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/laois-bible-2.pdf

Here's a picture of a Rathdowney team from 1911.

hockeygods.com/images/16961-Rathdowney_GAA_Hurling_Team_1...

Looks like the photo bomber was asked to leave for this one.

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000592693

Mike Grimes Agree about the jerseys, but where does Mr Murphy of St. Ursula's Terrace come in with a Laois team?

from the many photos of hurling teams on the NLI Flickr, it's interesting to see how the shape/design of the hurl changes over the decades...photo taken before AI...but the moustaches give me doubts

National Library of Ireland on The Commons That's a good question, because there's no mention of a Murphy on St. Ursula's Terrace, Waterford in the 1911 census.