cork

It grew a 'nose' over the front door. I wonder when?
StationHotelView - maps.app.goo.gl/vV5t3NurXAnZGpjv7

There is a longer shot - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000327406 - with a smart carriage from the Imperial Hotel.

Reminds of all the stories back in the day of planes landing at Shannon Airport for refuelling and then being held because of fog. Limerick didn't have enough hotels so people could get sent out to Kilkee. Including Che Guevara! kilkee.clareheritage.org/people/che-guevara-in-kilkee

" ... By the end of the nineteenth century, it became necessary to replace the original Penrose Quay terminus with a larger station, Kent Station, which opened on 2 February 1893. ..."
[Aside] - "The station served as a filming location for the 1979 movie The First Great Train Robbery starring Seán Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley-Anne Down."

via - www.ouririshheritage.org/content/knowyour5k/kent-station-2

This 2017 GoogleMaps screen grab is remarkably close to Mr French / Lawrence's point of view, going by the chimney positions relative to each other -
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/55320676852/in/dateposted/]

robh London Nice story Robert.

Shop at right looks like Murphy. Ellen Murphy, boarding house keeper, is 42 in 1911.

“A view of Cromwell’s Arch in Youghal, County Cork, in about 1945. It was from here on 26 May 1650 that Oliver Cromwell departed Ireland having overwintered in the town following his military campaign in the country.”

catholicarchives.ie/index.php/cromwells-arch-youghal-coun...

“When Youghal was a walled medieval town, it had five gates, and the Water Gate gave access to the harbour and the sea. This gate saw two very important events in Youghal’s history. The first, came to be known as the Sack of Youghal. As the centre of English power in Munster, Youghal was vitally important. On November 13th, 1579 Gerald Fitzgerald sought to destabilise power within the region and massacred the towns garrison, hanged the English officials and looted the townspeople’s homes. The Water Gate was the final stand of the garrison and people.

The second event occured 71 years later on May 26th, 1650 when Lord Protectorate Oliver Cromwell left Ireland for the final time. Cromwell had completed his campaign to conquer all of Ireland on behalf of the English crown,”

www.ringofcork.ie/listings/the-water-gate-youghal/

On a previous visit to Youghal, we learned that the Market House beyond the gate is from 1870

National Library of Ireland on The Commons ‘Watergate’ is the original name.
It was one of five gates of the walled Youghal, this one led to the sea, hence the name

“The Irish Volunteers was a paramilitary organisation formed in November 1913. It was set up in response to an article by Eoin MacNeill in the nationalist newspaper, An Claidheamh Soluis. The article called on nationalists to arm themselves in order to achieve Home Rule.

With the advent of the First World War, there was a split in the Irish Volunteers. This was because the leader of the Nationalist Party, John Redmond, called on all Irish Volunteers to support the British war effort. Those who agreed with Redmond became the National Volunteers. Those who did not want to support the British in the war remained the Irish Volunteers, many of whom eventually took part in the 1916 Rising”

"the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation is the split"
- Brendan Behan

Great to see there is a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy in Company B ...

[Aside] - www.youtube.com

beachcomber australia I was wondering which of you would suggest this!

The catalogue says this is September 1914, the same month the Volunteers split over support for WW1

Niall McAuley Missed September. Mea culpa!