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28 August 1913 was a Thursday ...

Via Trove -
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/229686298?searchTerm=L...
trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/105590804?searchTerm=L...

And this fuller story, a few days later, including -
" ... Larkin, disguised as an old man, with a false beard and decrepit gait, watched the detectives searching the hotel where he was staying. He subsequently addressed a meeting from the hotel balcony, and was recognised by the crowd. He submitted quietly to the police."

See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147172557?searchTerm=L...

Perhaps the article has confused two separate occasions. Larkin's Wikipedia article says ...
" ... Larkin and others were arrested for sedition on 28 August, and he was released on bail later that day. Connolly told the authorities "I do not recognise the English government in Ireland at all. I do not even recognise the King except when I am compelled to do so."[22] On 30 August, a warrant for Larkin's arrest was put out, claiming he had again been seditious and had incited people to riot and to pillage shops. When a meeting called by Larkin for Sunday 31 August 1913 was proscribed, Constance Markievicz and her husband Casimir disguised Larkin in Casimir's frock coat and trousers and stage makeup and beard, and Nellie Gifford, who was unknown to the police, led him into William Martin Murphy's Imperial Hotel, pretending to be her stooped, deaf old clergyman uncle (to disguise his instantly recognisable Liverpool accent). Larkin tore off his beard inside the hotel and raced to a balcony, where he shouted his speech to the crowd below. The police – some 300 Royal Irish Constabulary reinforcing Dublin Metropolitan Police – savagely baton-charged the crowd, injuring between 400 and 600 people. MP Handel Booth, who was present, said that the police "behaved like men possessed. They drove the crowd into the side streets to meet other batches of the government's minions, wildly striking with their truncheons at everyone within reach ... The few roughs got away first, most respectable people left their hats and crawled away with bleeding heads. Kicking victims when prostrate was a settled part of the police programme." Larkin went into hiding, charged with incitement to breach the peace. Larkin was later re-arrested, charged with sedition and was handed a 7-month imprisonment. ...

From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Larkin#Dublin_Lockout,_1913

Or is this photo of his arrest on Sunday 31 August in the Imperial Hotel disguised as an old man?

Someone will know.

Seated on the right, Sir David Harrel (1841–1939), Chief Commissioner Dublin Metropolitam Police - www.dib.ie/biography/harrel-sir-david-alfred-a3814

Standing left arms folded, Lord Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood (4 November 1870 – 3 July 1917), known as Lord Basil Temple Blackwood, was a British lawyer, civil servant and book illustrator.
See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Temple_Blackwood


Illustration by Basil Temple Blackwood for 'Cautionary Tales for Children' (1907) by Hillare Belloc. This is "Jim, who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion".

Better photo of him at 'Image 6'.

Standing right, Vaughan Robinson Nash CB CVO (1861 – 16 December 1932) was a British journalist, economist and the husband of Rosalind Nash.
From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan_Nash

Better photo 'Image 7'.

Skellig Michael, oratory and the bee-hive huts

YIKES! There's a googleball - maps.app.goo.gl/bTwu7ErGHbdtnZjm6

Ed. - Or two! - maps.app.goo.gl/RzAYCA9MrCkfcHvF7

Hopefully the (apparent) change today to the Flickr UI doesn't affect the commentary on this brilliant shot. I passed through this junction twice a day for many years - and yet it looks at once very different (delightfully so) and so familiar. Am loving the sidecar. Obligatory Google StreetView with the (oft derided and appallingly brutalist) shopping centre. A more recent movement might hopefully bring Phibsboro back in the direction of this near idyllic Eason shot :)

The hat of the presumed Garda suggests that he is not a DMP constable, which points to post-independence. Yet there are no cars or evidence of cars, and the sidecar attached to the motorbike looks very very old, The straw boater on the man at the corner suggests mid-20s at the latest although the ladies dresses seem to indicate much earlier. Hmmm...

BultacoFan And yet, the Daily Mail news poster speaks of the "British Fleet" and (I think) the "Kaiser". This one's going to be a goodie (technical term)! A "Finance Bill" in the Irish Times - it was ever thus. And I think the Freeman's Journal is exercised about an Imperial Congress? I should have gone to Specsavers!

BRITISH FLEET COMMANDED BY THE KAISER Say what?

Yes, in 1914 apparently: from Trove: BRITISH FLEET AT KIEL KAISER ASSUMES COMMAND