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P.S. Fógra: Our curator of photographs here at the National Library, Elizabeth Kirwan, is looking for some help. She hopes to identify the women in this Liberty Hall photograph, and to establish the date it was taken. It's been languishing rather unloved here for almost 13 years. So it'd be great if some of ye could help us revisit it, once you've finished with today's photograph, of course!

The fourth son, Vincent James O'Connell, was an architect ... Architect and engineer, of Earl Street, Dundalk, active from the first decade of the twentienth century until 1950 or later. Vincent O' Connell, fourth son of Henry O'Connell, grocer, of Dundalk, and his wife, Mary, was born in Co. Louth in 1882 or 1883. He became a pupil in the office of of HAGUE & amp; MCNAMARA in Dublin(1) before setting up in practice in Earl Street, Dundalk, in 1906 or earlier. He was appointed engineer to the Newry Port and Harbour Trust in 1910 in succession to JAMES BARTON (2) and had opened a branch office in Newry by the autumn of 1911.(3) He married after 1911, when, according to the 1911 census, he was still living as a bachelor with his parents in Earl Street, Dundalk. By 1944 he had taken a son into partnership, practising as V.J. O'Connell & Son. ... See - www.dia.ie/architects/view/4107/O%27CONNELL-VINCENTJAMES

Still writ large in Earl Street (but not matching the photo) ... H. O'CONNELL & Co. WHOLESALE TEA WAREHOUSE. HAM & BACON STORE see - maps.app.goo.gl/BrRxhQrFBjJwKVKK7

Building is now occupied by the Dundalk Leader. maps.app.goo.gl/qQc3PKQvNxnCijf97

Suck Diesel Any info on that IWWU photo you have, will be very gratefully received. But could you comment under that photo, rather than here, so all the information stays together?

The statue is still there in streetview. It dates from 1861 per the NIAH

L_ROY_10087 has the same crew, and we see the pub on the right is T. V. McQuillans. Thomas V. McQuillan is only 25 in 1901, I think we are probably in the 1900s. I don't see McQuillan in 1911...

The statue is to "the best landlord who ever lived"! Extract from Wiki designed by architect John Murray, was erected to the memory of "one of the best landlords that ever lived" and placed in such a prominent position within the town of Ardee because of the respect in which Sir Frederick Foster was held by his tenants.

As we're almost certainly after 1880 and pre-1916, it's wouldn't be Daylight Saving Time or Greenwich Mean Time, but Dunsink Time or Dublin Mean Time, which was 25 minutes and 21 secs behind Greenwich.

It surprised me to find that this photo is the later of the two. Going by the shadow of the lamp on the plinth (see note).

Are there no photos with dogs left in the archive?

OSI Link

The Boyne Obelisk erected in 1736, bearing this inscription: 'Sacred to the glorious memory of King William the Third, who, on the 1st of July, 1690, passed the river near this place to attack James the Second, and did, on that day, by a single battle, secure to us and to our posterity, our liberty, laws, and religion. The monument stood until 1923 AD and was then blown up by an early act of terrorism, allegedly with dynamite stolen from the nearby Irish Army base.The base of the Obelisk remains to this day with several stones still scattered around and in the River Boyne itself. From Here

The present Obelisk Bridge is of lattice iron, built by Grendon’s Foundry in Drogheda and placed in position in 1869. It superseded a wooden bridge which was built at the ford sometime after the Battle of the Boyne. Just north of this bridge is an ivy covered rock about 30 feet high from the water’s edge, on which an obelisk was raised in 1736, which gives the place its name. This was a tall tapering stone monument commemorating ‘King Billy’s’ victory. According to D’Alton in his ‘History of Drogheda’ it was the first ever monument to the event. It stood on a square Plinth of 20 feet and was about 150 feet high. It had the following inscription: ‘Sacred to the glorious memory of King William the Third who on the July 1 1690, crossed the Boyne near this place, to attack James the Second at the head of a Popish army, advantageously posted on the south side of it, and did on that day, by a successful battle, secure to us and our posterity, our liberty, laws and religion. In consequence of this action James the Second left this kingdom and fled to France. This memorial of our deliverance was erected in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, the first stone being laid by Lionel Sackville, Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of the Kingdom of Ireland. MDCCXXXVI. His monument was erected by the grateful contributions of several Protestants of Great Britain and Ireland.’ For 187 years the monument was sketched and later photographed from all angles and used in the tourist brochures of the day until it was blown up in 1923.

More at - www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/localnot... [Ed. DannyM8 - snap ! ]

The bridge looks brand new and the stonework not weathered. So 1869 -ish?