falloflimerick

Children chatting to troops passing through to an attack on Irregulars Stronghold

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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• Swordscookie said:

  The crude sign on the sideboard of the truck nearest seems to say Limerick but I am not familiar with the church. It is not unlike the Dominicans in Dominics Street but there is no steeple on that. It may be out in the county?

• pellethepoet said:

  The other version of the same photograph in the catalogue has some more detail (more children) to the right, cropped in this print. - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000194370 National Library of Ireland on The Commons PS. Date typo! Unless you mean the 124th Ground hog day :)

• coffee robbie said:

  possibly Bruff, Co.Limerick

• Gregory PC said:

  coffee robbie I think you're spot on with Bruff! goo.gl/maps/sCSGCAwCrZm

• coffee robbie said:

  following info from Declan Hehir photography Bruff...............Bruff by the chemists shop & across from what was Gleeson pub. It was the free state army during the civil war