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Here's a possible name. Wicklow News-Letter and County Advertiser - Saturday 28 October 1916:

Bomb, and Acting-Sergt. A. Baker, clerk. R.F.A., Ballincollig, was found not guilty at court-martial at Cork on charges of having applied £5, the property of his commanding officer to liis own use, suppressed correspondence, applied to his own account moneys paid him for the purchase a wreath, and being unfit for duty owing to indulgence in drink.

Which one has the guilty innocent look?

There are still Barracks buildings at Ballincollig, a former cavalry barracks Streetview, but I don't see this building.

And in the same newspaper on March 18th:
Saturday 18 March 1916:

A protest against the action the Crown in remanding again and again Corporal J. W. Brodie. R.F.A., Ballincollig, on charge of bigamously marrying Hanna McCarthy was made by Mr. O’Driscoll, solicitor, at a Court in Bandon. Accused was again remanded.

I spent four years in Ballincollig (1 FAR) I don't remember the building in the background, or anything resembling it.

Not Ballincollig in 1916, but the 30th Reserve, RFA the previous year. Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 18 August 1915:

ARTILLERYMAN'S DYING CHILD. Thomas Henry Keeley, 31, of Sultan street, Camberwell, driver in the 30th Reserve Battery of the Royal Field Artillery, was charged with being an absentee from Ins corps since Sunday last. When arrested by P.C. Hansford, the prisoner said the reason he did not back was that had a child lying very ill in Belgrave Hospital. Mr Biron committed the prisoner to await military escort. The prisoner, mentioning that the child might die at any moment, asked that he might allowed to visit the hospital before he was handed over to the military authorities. " We will try and manage that for you" replied Biron. His worship gave instructions the police accordingly.

There is a reverse view which says it is . . . . . . .
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Front Strand View - goo.gl/maps/V9qgEPTc6D4pVRg67

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2017 via John Finn

Yikes! Mr French / Lawrence was there also. Who was first? Spot the differences!
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I was curious about the ABC Tearooms. Not a branch of the British Aerated Bread Co. chain whose tea rooms were a major feature of many towns & cities from the late Victorian era through much of the 20th century, but rather a cafe owned by a Cork businessman Alfred Cole books.google.ie/books?id=zomQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&lpg=... and his family. Cole was in partnership with an Alcox & a Brown in a Cork grocery concern, thus the ABC Cafe, as we see in the French photo. In the O’Connor photo we see that it’s a tearoom - one has to suspect that the inspiration might come from the chain restaurant.

Glasslyn Rd

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Looks like they kept the door but now it's facing away from the corner and is a bookies. I do remember when the PO was there. I grew up 4 miles away.

That`s a West Cork deck
or small shipwreck.

The Railway Hotel building is listed a c. 1900 in NIAH, but with a big error bar of 1880-1920.

The post office is listed as 1907.