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What a difference fifty-odd years makes in so many ways...

Great photo.

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?

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Police History, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.

Thanks for adding this to the Police History Group -- Seen in Police History (?)

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Vintage Shadow People, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

I'd riot too if someone upped all the food prices... We've added your photo to our favorites and to our photo collection related to food prices.

Another Bain/LOC photo from the 1911 Food Price Riots of St. Quentin, France:

Dated February 22nd 1920.

Note attached to verso reads "Tank and Armoured Cars Imposing Force at Raid on a Factory / A large force of military and police took part in the riad [raid] on the premises of a firm of window blind manufacturers in Aungier Street, Dublin. There were two companies of soldiers and three military motor lorries. Seven men were arrested. A large number of rifles and grenades and a quantity of ammunition are stated to have been found. PHOTO:- Some of the prisoners being taken away in motor lorries.".

Yes 1920. See this report of 24/2/1920 via Trove - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139431224?searchTerm=D...

This version is slightly easier to read and transcribe - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/202977317?searchTerm=D...

"THE DUBLIN RAIDS.
Crowds Cheer Prisoners. A " Stay-at-Home" Order.
LONDON", 22nd February.

One hundred police and fully armed soldiers were employed in the raid in Aungier-strcet, Dublin, upon a window blind factory. In addition a tank, motor lorries and two armored cars were engaged, from the turrets of which machine guns were turned on to the crowd watching the operations. Soldiers with fixed bayonets lined the streets, while the police tore up all the flooring of the factory. After two hours' search they brought out two brothers of McGrath, the civilian who was wounded in the Westmoreland-street raid. The crowd gave the prisoners a thunderous cheer, and hissed the soldiers and police. Soldiers are guarding Mercers Hospital, where the other McGrath is lying. The Dublin army authorities have ordered that after 23rd inst. all persons shall remain within doors between midnight and 5 a.m. except nurses, clergy and doctors provided with passes. Other persons will be liable to be challenged, and if thev disobey, they do so at their own peril. The authorities believe that Saturday's arrests will have the effect of dispersing a secret society which has been responsible for many recent crimes."

The mention of 'Saturday' above makes me wonder if the photo was actually Saturday 21 February 1920 ??

beachcomber australia Reports in Saturday's Irish Independent describe the "sensational" scenes the day before, so the date would be Friday, 20 February 1920.