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Is that not just a Leinster harp on account of them being from New Ross?

Streetview

The wall of Jordan's pub (then the L&NW office) now bears this plaque:

The ‘Stars & Stripes’ flag does not appear to be any one of the normal variations that would have been in existence before the end of the nineteenth century. The star arrangement differs from any of the established arrangements at that time!

No Kirwans, Laffans or Byrnes on the parade according to the census of 1901 or 1911.

Marlborough Streetview

The list of the pallbearers is here.

Michael Collins.

By a combination of circumstances I (with no known Irish connections) have my middle name Michael because of this man. Sort of.

My father was born in 1922, and my grandmother really really liked the name Michael. But of course the one Michael in all the papers at the time was General Collins. I doubt very much whether Grannie Spooner was following the goings-on in Ireland at the time, but although she liked the name, she probably didn't want a name so closely associated with whatever unpleasantness was happening, and so my father was named Philip.

Over three decades later I was born. I don't think my parents particularly wanted the name Micheal, but Grannie still really really liked it for some reason, and if her son couldn't be a Michael, then it would have to be her first grandson. She must have had some clout in the family, because as a compromise I ended up as John Michael.

Personally I don't like the name much, and never use it. My siblings occasionally make muttered accusations of favouritism and privilege because they have no middle names.

And all because of Michael Collins being in the news in 1922.

John Spooner Nice story John Michael! I always thought of Michael as being the name of the first policeman who was ordered by the Lord to throw Lucifer and his minions out of heaven! Mine was an anti-Free State household yet on our wall were a photograph of deValera and a painting of Michael Collins!
Looking at the list that Sharon has provided the only name that jumps out at me was Dalton and I was wondering if that was Emmett Dalton?????

National Library of Ireland on The Commons No, his brother Charles.

Looks like Westland Row looking towards Lombard Street

DannyM8 I know, but what about the church? That's not City Quay church (can't remember the saint). Is that church over the other side of the Liffey?

Pub on the Right is the same

Westland Row does not have a bend in the tram tracks. maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,716527,733957,7,9

You are right it is Kellys Corner National Library of Ireland on The Commons