auxiliaries

Hogan was in Templemore on 22nd August to photograph the "bleeding statues", so this may have been taken at the same time. There's a history of the "Templemore Miracles" at History Ireland. Including the following: According to an eye-witness, [Michael] Collins ‘. . . took hold of the statue and banged it off the side of the desk, and of course out fell the works of the alarm clock. “I knew it”, he says. So that was the end of the bleeding statue.’ Also here: www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6068653601/in/photolist-a...

Sharon Corbet Sharon, a fascinating read.

OSI down for maintenance!? How will I find this house?

derangedlemur It's working for me. (But isn't really helping me to identify the house...)

"On the night of 16 August 1920 ‘wild scenes were witnessed’ in Temple-more as the North-amptonshire Regiment carried out reprisals following the killing of RIC District Inspector Wilson by the IRA. According to a local press report, ‘soldiers joined in the outbreak . . . volleys were fired, houses attacked, shops looted, the town hall was burned down, and three creameries destroyed’. (Ironically, two members of the regiment, Captain S. H. Beattie MC and Lance Corporal H. J. Fuggle, were to lose their lives in the fire.)" Templemore was a hotbed of insurrection around that time and there were several killings, numerous burnings and raids by RIC, Black and Tans and the military aplenty! This could have been after one of those but I agree with Sharon, Hogan was virtually embedded with Collins and Co. and probably went there with him. Templemore has changed dramatically in the meantime and this house is unlikely to still be there. I love the line "Child with a small ball" What would whoever wrote the title call a sliothar then???

Who's who in this photo?
Th officer (I'm going by the cut of his uniform) has Flying Corps wings above his campaign ribbons. campaign ribbons are also worn my the man to his right.
By the look of cap badges (a harp surmounted by a crown) and the dark uniforms they might be members of the RIC . The presence of a khaki clad officer also makes me think of RIC Auxiliaries, aka Black and Tans.

I'm assuming he's Auxiliary - those men were recruited from ex-WWI officers including the Royal Flying Corps. Most of the others seem to be Black and Tans. So many men (mostly WWI veterans) responded to British Government appeals for recruits to bolster R.I.C. (Royal Irish Constabulary) numbers, that there was a severe shortage of uniforms. Hence the Tans mostly ended up with khaki trousers and dark tops, either R.I.C. (dark green) or British police tunics (dark blue) - and hence the nickname...

For more on this attack, and some fascinating details on participants from both sides, see this link - irishconstabulary.com/topic/755/Q-Company

Peter Mc Thank you! Absolutely fascinating, and allowed me to tag with Q Company...
With regard to the "liquid fire" spoken of on irishconstabulary.com, the Irish Times reported that:
"... A sinister feature of the attack was the use of gas bombs and of bottles containing a thick red-brown corrosive liquid, which gave off nauseous fumes and partially choked the police occupants of the hotel..."

Peter Mc Very interesting, I read the account of the attack, fascinating!

Lovely reverie.

It seems the image needs flipping. Also in the NLI catalogue is the same image via Messrs Keogh (unflipped with a buttonhole on the correct side) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000029661 . The caption for the Keogh image says "Peter Clancy (Co. Clare), Sentenced to Death, Sentence commuted to 10 Years' Penal Servitude." Which surely implies the image is 1916 or before? Perhaps Mr Hogan copied the original c. 1922? Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha; 9 November 1888 – 21 November 1920 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Clancy

Better known as Peadar Clancy, he was active in the 1916 uprising. He, Dick McKee & Conor Clune we’re shot at Dublin Castle on the evening of Bloody Sunday. He was a draper by trade and had a shop on O’Connell Street called Republican Outfitters.

The unflipped original version from the wiki page -
- which came from a May 1916 postcard in South Dublin Couthy Libraries - hdl.handle.net/10599/9958

His birth cert: civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/cert_...