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Interestingly a copy of this handbill is for sale at a price of £300 - www.abebooks.co.uk/Public-Meeting-Protestants-Ballymoney-... And another for £600 here - www.richardfordmanuscripts.co.uk/catalogue/11571

Very very interesting. Will certainly have to delve into this one

billh35 And oddly, both sites give a publication date of 1911!

colin.boyle4 Oh excellent! (Rubs hands with glee)

www.anphoblacht.com/contents/22415 www.politics.ie/forum/events/197023-1913-alternative-ulst...

I have seen this before in the context of one of your photographs, but I cant remember which one? Possibly the Dublin Bread Company?

Interesting video - Padraig Yeates tells us about Irelands first bloody Sunday where between 400 to 600 Dubliners were seriously injured in Sackville Street (now O Connell Street) on August 31st 1913 following a passionate speech by trade unionist Jim Larkin. This was the beginning of the Great Dublin Lock-Out which left nearly a 1/3 of the population starving. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvplJ4XC_GI

From his obituary in the London Times May 9 1927 Sir Ernest Godwin Swifte, K.C., died on May 7th 1927 aged 87. He was promoted to Chief Magistrate in 1910, and retired in 1921.

He was the lineal descendent and representative of Godwin Swift, of Swift's Heath, Kilkenny, the uncle and guardian of Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's. His uncle, Mr Godwin Meade Pratt Swift, when head of the Swift family in Ireland, revived the ancient spelling of Swifte for Swift, a change to which Sir Ernest Swifte's father conformed much to his regret, but which has not been adopted by other members of the family.

DannyM8 "... was noted from his earliest years for his affection for dogs"

John Spooner Funny

In making his public appearance, Mr Larkin may have been delivering on a promise made some days ago, but he was also acting in defiance of an official proclamation prohibiting the holding of a meeting on Sackville street. Of course, Mr Larkin had flagged his intentions in advance; before a massive crowd of an estimated 10,000 people at Beresford Place two nights ago - August 29th - he not only made a very public point of burning a copy of the proclamation which barred the proposed meeting on; he also claimed that he cared as little for the King as he did for the magistrate, Mr. Swifte. The tenor of his remarks on that occasion led to a warrant for his arrest, yet until yesterday, Mr Larkin managed to evade the clutches of the police www.rte.ie/centuryireland/articles/larkin-makes-dramatic-... There is also a good photo of Larkin in disguise being arrested, and good reports of the events in the Imperial Hotel - which occupied part of the Clerys building.

Streetview. maps.app.goo.gl/ipUTQCTBU7uH7Qmf7

Via Trove, Friday 26 May 1916 (?) - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242327035?searchTerm=a... AIRSHIP OVER DUBLIN (Published In "The Times") LONDON, Friday, 9.35 p.m. A British naval airship flew over Dublin today. It was quite low when passing over the Liffey.

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More ... This unusual event was reported in The Irish Times on 27 May. ‘A British airship, flying the naval ensign and bearing the Allied distinguishing mark – coloured circles – on its rudders, appeared over Dublin yesterday (Friday 26 May), and attracted very keen attention. It was first noticed east of the Custom House, and, after flying over the neighbourhood of Amiens Street Station, passed over the ruins of the Imperial Hotel, crossed Sackville Street, then turned south nearly as far as the offices of the Port and Docks Board. It then proceeded eastwards over the Liffey, and performed some evolutions over the buildings on the South Wall. As it came low an excellent view of its design was obtained by the hundreds of persons observing its movement. Three figures could be seen in the airship. The navigating officers acknowledged the cheers of the crowd by waving their hands.' ... From - thecricketbatthatdiedforireland.com/2013/02/23/the-first-...

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