clergy

He was Archbishop from December 1940 to 1973 so this was either 1940 or early in 1941? A lot of prelates in this one.

Swordscookie Wikipedia claims 27 December 1940.

There is a description of the consecration in John Charles McQuaid: Ruler of Catholic Ireland by John Cooney. From that I think that the woman in the first row on the right (after all the clergy) is the then Lord Mayor of Dublin Kathleen Clarke.

Interesting to see the changes to the arrangement of the altar/sanctuary area following Vatican II. According to the Wikipedia article, the altar rails were removed in the 1970s, the wooden pulpit was moved elsewhere, and the reredos (the ornate wall/divider that the candles are standing on either side of the tabernacle) was removed entirely. www.flickr.com/photos/the_burninator/128998406/ Perhaps unsurprisingly, though undoubtedly there are more ladies further back the church, I recon it might almost be possible to count the females in this section of the congregation on one hand. (Made obvious by the expectation that men would remove their headwear - but women would retain theirs.) I'd concur with Sharon Corbet's suggestion that the foremost hat-wearing (and fur-wearing?) lady is the Lord Mayor...

guliolopez Mink, according to John Cooney's book.

Eek! Where has Maud Gonne gone ?

beachcomber australia OMG - We have had a very technical problem today - Poor Maud is GONE, deleted in error due to a glitch in our systems. As you all know deleted on Flicker means deleted. Our plan is to post her again next week and see if we can recreate the excellent detective work from yesterday. If you have a copy of the comments in your history or anywhere on your computer, please do send them on to us. Mary

M Cassin is mentioned in the Waterford Standard Saturday 24 June 1933 as presiding over a meeting of the Corporation Housing Committee in his capacity as Mayor. He was a councillor as early as 1907 (elected to the Street Committee and the Public Health Committee, and was the councils's representative on the Harbour Board ).

Some Good News - we did manage to find the following comments from yesterday. sam2centsPRO said: Carol Maddock J. V. Robinson must have been a pretty successful photographer in the first place to afford such a device, and very proficient at the scientific arts involved to have designed such a beast. Someone worth knowing way more about. As for Maud Gonne, I had no idea she was so tall, but I see in group photos she towers over other women. Her daughter, the one Yeats was interested in, was very ... BeachcomberAustralia added tags: feather, boa philfluther said: The Hannah Arendt of WW1, "an inconceivable madness". John Spooner said: Sam Here is J V Robinson's obituary in the Irish Times on Monday 21 October 1901 . 10 hours ago sam2centsPRO said: John Spooner Thanks John! I like the line 'in this age of universal electric lighting'. 7 hours ago You said: Thanks Sharon Corbet, Carol Maddock, John Spooner, beachcomber australia, Sam, all. I've mapped this one to the suggested Paris studio address. And, to avoid suggestions of time travel, updated the date to c.1896 :) I've added a short note on the inscription (and its dedicator and dedicatee) to the text. Much appreciated as usual! 7 hours ago oaktree_brian_1976 said: Miss Gonne belongs to an English and Protestant family; it was because she owned land in Ireland that she had the opportunity to witness the painful spectacle of Irish misery and resolved to relieve it. "I gave my life to Ireland, she tells us, until the home ride is stolen. But I did not give up the religion of my fathers. Miss Maud, tall and slender, with a frail appearance, conceals a virile ... 7 hours ago oaktree_brian_1976 said: more photos, 1892 gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8596905t/f23.i tem 6 hours ago oaktree_brian_1976 said: Maud Gonne gave lectures. In a monotonous and tireless voice, taking from her aquamarine eyes the sky to witness, she narrated the misery of the peasants of her country, the atrocities of landlords, and dedicated to the wrath of Hell the Protestants of Ulster she called "these abominable Orangist hypocrites". Le Cri de Paris / dir. P. Dollfus 1918-05-26

We are on the steps of the Adelphi Imperial Hotel in Waterford again:

"Giorgio Gusmini (9 December 1855 – 24 August 1921) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Bologna." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Gusmini He was elevated to Cardinal on December 6, 1915.

Thank you for this information B-59. We'll add some of it to the record the next time we update.