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Commandant Leonard

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 7 older comments, and then…
  • derangedlemur said:
    Not a huge amount on him: www.limerickcity.ie/media/1922%2007%2024%20vol%201%20no%2...
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    I think this is his BMH Statement, which gives him a first name, Joe, and mentions that he was part of the Squad.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    4 July 1922 was a Tuesday.
  • O Mac said:
    Leonard was on the "Ashtown Ambush" when the IRA failed to assassinate Lord French. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/17069060140/in/photolist-... He seems to have had a wry sense of humour by his BMH account. "Lord Lieutenant Ffrench 19th December, 1919. Ashtown. Lord Ffrench was a gallant gentleman and he conducted his British affairs in Ireland to the very best of his ability but he fell very short of our idea as to how we could run our own country ourselves, consequently it was thought best to remove him from office by gunfire....!"
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I see one source saying this is him aged 18 in the 1911 census.

The Bridge, Athlone

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Stuart said:
    They are marching to the barracks....on the other side of that bridge.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Lovely!

    The building at top right of this one is the same as the building at top left of this (earlier) one nearby:
    Our first Chimney Sweep?
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Niall McAuley Spotted your note for the "works" on the bridge. Was it a swing bridge?
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The narrow part of the bridge nearest the camera was a lifting section to allow sailing ships past. You can see some cogs in the mechanism at the bottom of the narrow section. This has since been replaced with a wider but uglier flat concrete span visible here:

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    Things in 1922 were unchanged since the the GeoHive OS 25" (which has an incorrect survery date of 1888 attached, but is actually after 1905.) The Bank is still there, the Woollen Mills burned down in the 1940s and a Radisson Blu is there now, the Methodist Church is still there but the steeple is gone, and the Post Office is gone too, replaced by a rather ugly Bank building.

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