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Is this like a fresh air camp? (Where inner city kids are giving a chance to camp in the great outdoors?)

this scene is amazing

So Lovely !!!!!!!

Thank you all for your comments! Camp Ebenezer was a fresh air camp in Holmes County, Ohio. It was founded in 1947 by Tillie Yoder, a young woman who grew up Amish but joined the Mennonite Church rather than becoming Amish herself. Yoder became aware of the pain of racial segregation when her African American friend, Ada Webb, was denied entry into Eastern Mennonite College. The two women attended Hessten College, where they were roommates. Tillie Yoder opened the camp out of her conviction that all people are equal in God's eyes.

Thank you for sharing this photograph. We've used it in our Black History Month blog post for 2024 www.flickr.org/black-history-through-archival-images-2/

".......... and her home at Oakley Road, Rathmines was much frequented by republicans. During the war of independence it was raided eleven times by troops and police, who fired shots and caused serious damage on at least three occasions."..
www.dib.ie/biography/ceannt-aine-a1580

18 February 1923 was a Sunday ...

Not at this address in the 1911 census

This Lafayette portrait of Áine and Rónan in 1917, NPA POLF10, gives the address as 44 Oakley Road.

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Date is absolutely accurate. This account of the attack appeared in the Freeman's Journal on Tuesday, 20 February 1923...

TWO HOUSES WRECKED
Ruthless Destruction By Rathmines Raiders

The residence of Mrs. Eamonn Ceannt, at 44 Oakley road, Rathmines, was visited on Sunday by about a dozen men, who smashed the windows, doors and furniture.
The house is directly opposite that of Mr. Alex. McCabe, which had been blown to pieces earlier in the night by a land mine.
Earlier in the night two men arrived and said they were going to burn the house. However, they went away without doing so.

The second raid occurred at 12.50 a.m., while Mrs. Ceannt, her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth O'Brennan, and a lodger, Miss Moore, were finishing a late supper. Answering a knock, Mrs. Ceannt found about 10 or 12 men outside the door. They peremptorily ordered her to clear, out at once. They also ordered her mother and Miss Moore to leave, and did not allow them time to take anything with them but the clothes they wore.

WORK OF DESTRUCTION
The ladies sought shelter in a neighbouring house, from which they could hear the sound of breaking glass and the crash of furniture, as the men went about the work of destruction. This went on for over an hour, when the party left in two motor cars in which they had driven to the house. Mrs. Ceannt returned to her house at 8 o'clock in the morning, and a terrible scene of wreckage and confusion met her gaze. Every window had been smashed out, doors were broken, and furniture of all descriptions was strewn about, broken to splinters.
A fine piano in the sittingroom, was hopelessly torn to pieces, tables, chairs, pictures and ornaments were all thrown about and destroyed.
Photographs of Mr. Eamonn Ceannt, who was executed after Easter Week, 1916, were destroyed. A number of shots had been discharged as there were bullet marks through some of the windows and also in pictures. A collection of toys belonging to Mrs. Ceannt's son, who is in College, was also taken out and smashed.

Out here they call it Poppa’s Place or Harry’s place. Its official name, however, is the Hotel Corones. It is named after its proprietor, Harry Corones, one of the richest men in the west. The number one hotel in Western Queensland with a State-wide reputation for pleasant living, it is at the same time the most western and the least western of any hotel beyond the Great Divide. It is most western in its spaciousness — not the length and breadth of its rooms, but the atmosphere brought to them by the outback people who make it their town headquarters. It is made un-western by the other people who come to it — a wide variety of people who are classifiable only by the fact that they are not westerners. Some of their names in the hotel register make it read like an extract from Who’s Who? THE hotel itself is a long white, double storied building in Charleville’s main street, built in 1929 at a cost of £50,000. Its main feature is the big green summer lounge with the marble floor which you enter as soon as you pass through the doors of Corones. This is where the westerners and the non-westerners meet and mingle and talk things over. This lounge is the hub of social life in the Warrego for eight months of the year. For the other four — the cold months — it moves up to the top floor where the same thing occurs before a log fire. At the back of the hotel there is a sun porch and a piazza. THE story of Harry Corones is the old success story. As a young man of Greek parentage he came to the town 40 years ago, and started a small cafe. A fire set him back, but after he became established in the hotel Charleville, and after that the present Corones. In all the present hustle of his guests celebrating the district’s centenary he’s undisturbed. Grey-haired, with a towel over his shoulder, he shuffled through his hotel on errands of supervision. Assisting him is gentle Mrs. Corones, also grey-haired. His trade connections extend beyond Corones. If you sit down in the dining room you may use a serviette marked Hotel Charleville, or at night you may sleep on a pillow with a label from one of two hotels at Quilpie. These are all operated by his family. If you go dancing in Charleville he will probably dance in Corones’ Hall, next door to the hotel. Outside of business, he takes a prominent part in town affairs, being on the fire brigade, ambulance, and hospital boards. The up-to-date Charleville hospital is his special interest. He is interested in golf but says he is now growing too old to play it and extends benevolent patronage over other sports. But Corones is his chief interest. And he is confident that one day in the distant future Corones itself will celebrate a centenary. – Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld), Thursday 6 November 1947. Source: timegents.com/2017/11/13/hotel-corones-charleville/