dáiléireann

This space was an RDS lecture theater until 1922, so this must be 1922-39. From wikipedia: it was decided to hire the main RDS Lecture Theatre attached to Leinster House for use in December 1922 as a temporary Dáil chamber. The building was bought outright from the RDS in 1924.

The room is octagonal in shape and its original seating capacity was 700. Little alteration was needed to adapt it for parliamentary purposes - the floor was raised and the seating capacity reduced. This photo matches a modern one, so I think it is after the alterations. The DIA says "alts for use as Dail" were from 1925-29, so I think this is earliest 1925.

The RTE stills library has some shots from 1969, no help. The flat wall with the pictures hung on it has been painted white by then, dark in this picture.

I wonder what all the controls on that piece of furniture are for?

maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,716267,733681,12,9

The red hand of Ulster is a right hand. I think the image is reversed.

Beara Peninsula Here's another shot the right way around. (It also says Lord Mayor backwards below the Red Hand).

If it was August 1921, then there are only a limited number of dates it can be. The Dáil only sat from August 16th to 27th. Probably it's of the opening of the Second Dáil on August 16th.

Trying to identify the characters in the shot will not be easy as they are very spread out and there are a lot of empty seats! I see Arthur Griffith on the couch in the front with his arm draped over the armrest. The man beside his could be Michael Collins but that will be hard to confirm as he has his head down. On the far side is Count Plunkett easily identifiable due to his age and full beard! Who is the Chair? WT Cosgrave perhaps????

Swordscookie Sean, this was where the note function came into its own.

Mary MacSwiney Ada English Kathleen Clarke Margaret Pearse Constance Markievicz

Suck Diesel For clarity, which numbers, please?

From wikipedia: The Second Dáil consisted of members elected at the 1921 elections, but with only members of Sinn Féin taking their seats. On 7 January 1922, it ratified the Anglo-Irish Treaty by 64 votes to 57 which would be 121 TDs, so this is only a small minority. Wikipedia lists the members, and there are only 5 women. I think 3 is Kathleen Clarke, 17 might be Mary MacSwiney. I don't think Countess Markievicz or Margaret Pearse are pictured.

The catalogue says Count Plunkett and William Cosgrave are here, the Count would be number 8, but I don't see Cosgrave.

Niall McAuley I think Cosgrave is a Krazy Kataloguer mistake too! Agree on no. 8 being Count Plunkett. But I disagree about no. 3 and no. 17. I believe no. 3 is Kate/Kathleen O'Callaghan, and that no. 6 is Mary MacSwiney.

“Abstract
While the participation of Irishmen in the Great War has prompted much scholarship, the
commemoration of their involvement – and in particular how Irish journalism reported and
interpreted such commemorations – has been less examined. This article argues that the
journalism surrounding the annual Armistice Day commemoration was a central factor in the
battle for power in independent Ireland. It finds that the annual commemoration played a
major part in the identity politics of the Irish Free State and that this was greatly intensified
by journalistic argument about the motives of those who had fought in the Great War, what
that war meant in relation to the freedom of small nations, and how best to commemorate
those who had died. It also finds that while such journalistic argument helped engender an
air of stigma about Irish involvement in the Great War, later journalistic arguments played a
key role in removing that stigma”

doras.dcu.ie/24043/1/Whose War Was It Anyway.pdf

doras.dcu.ie/24043/1/Whose%20War%20Was%20It%20Anyway.pdf

Armistice anniversaries 1926

youtu.be/Q7NaTcxTiAU?si=q80g8fPzcPfVnMyM

Funny/peculiar 'a's and 'e's in that script ...

The lads in the back of the truck seem to be enjoying themselves all the same.

Try as I might, I've found no press reports of Sinn Fein MPs being arrested on Armistice Day 1926.