countessmarkievicz

Alright, I admit it; I too scribbled spectacles on pictures when I was four!

beachcomber australia And moustaches. I have no doubt that the moustaches in this photo are genuine, but some are of a style which went out of fashion at the time of the Emergency, and as far as I am aware never returned.

John Spooner via Grey Jay

That's Kathleen Clarke sitting on the other side of the Long Fellow.

Roll up, roll up! For a limited time period, we're accepting bets/educated guesses as to whether this was taken after the June or after the September elections in 1927.

Is May correct? She was released from Holloway prison on Friday 15th March and arrived in Dublin the following day and made a speech from the windows of Liberty Hall (according to press reports).

Merry Christmas NLI Marys and everyone - thanks for all the flickroonie fun this year! No idea who these people are, but the Countess Markievicz seems to have been one huge character - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz

John Spooner I suspect that the question mark behind May in the title was to seek clarification on that point John. If it was her release from prison in March then what, if anything, was happening in May or was this March???

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

beachcomber australia If further evidence of her forceful character were needed (and it isn't) this is how she summed up her treatment in Holloway Prison
(Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 20 March 1919)

To cheat slightly, there's a list available in the Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa Funeral Souvenir Programme.

Sharon Corbet Cheating's such an ugly word, Sharon! It's a research resource... :) Who did the fantastic numbered jigsaw for our RIA photograph a while back? *shakes fist and glares at Flickr for taking away our vital Notes feature*

Here is a cool interactive map of Glasnevin using Streetview to tour famous graves.

A direct streetview link to the grave of O'Donovan Rossa.

A further "research resource", namely the photo with names below.