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Darrell Figgis

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 20 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  Taken in 2091 - how did they manage that? Was Mr Figgis a Time Lord?

• beachcomber australia said:

  Darrell Edmund Figgis (Irish: Darghal Figes; 17 September 1882 – 27 October 1925) was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State. The little that has been written about him has attempted to highlight how thoroughly his memory and works have been excised from Irish popular culture. From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Figgis With a Homburg hat placed at a jaunty angle and sporting a perfectly trimmed ginger beard, in which he took inordinate pride, the impeccably dressed Darrell Figgis was a familiar sight in war-torn Dublin. From - www.independent.ie/lifestyle/the-short-and-tragic-life-of...

• Niall McAuley said:

  Possibly a Georgian doorway? Red brick to the left, a pillar, and a very worn step, not a new building at the time. But only a small step up from the street...

• beachcomber australia said:

  His beard was unusually red in this portrait by Estella Frances Solomons - www.artnet.com/artists/estella-frances-solomons/darrell-f...

• Carol Maddock said:

  His dapperosity (technical term) was a gift to all artists and cartoonists... Grace Gifford Shemus Even dapper in a prison cell according to Tom Lalor