funeral

This was covered by Frank McNally in the Irish Times a number of years ago. www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/an-irishman-s-diary-o... The monument was moved across the street to the west side of the Luas tracks.

Irish251 An interesting read.

St John's Road outside Kingsbridge (Heuston) station. maps.app.goo.gl/wizAxv1htfdFL7dQ9

Would Mr Lambert have been living on Middlesex Street in Wakefield? Because Middlesex is a county in the south of England, and Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire in the north of England, but it does have a Middlesex Street.

Interred in Kilfergus, Glin Co Limerick www.findagrave.com/memorial/208944862/patrick-sheahan

Even when you can see the background it's pretty anonymous.

It is a funeral, though; The group behind the band are carrying a coffin.

Michael Collins' uncle died in 1924. I suppose they might have got the band out for that, on the strength of his being a land leaguer. antoglach.militaryarchives.ie/PDF/1924_07_19_Vol_2_No12_A...

Ooooh, this one should be tagged "Toughie", but as usual I'm prepared to be amazed!

I wonder is that the Garda band leading an army group with the coffin? The Garda Band was formed in 1922/23 and the band's uniforms in this image seem darker than the army uniforms.

The funeral cortege left the home of the deceased at Highgate Hill and concluded at the Mount Thompson Crematorium. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/117632845

Lewis McDonald (1881-1936), printer and Labor Party administrator, was born on 22 December 1881 at Auchterhead, Lanark, Scotland. Educated at the Brisbane Central School and at university extension classes, McDonald became an apprentice printer but fell ill and in 1905 moved to Mourilyan, North Queensland, where he helped to organize the Amalgamated Sugar Workers' Union. He became assistant secretary to the central political executive of the Queensland Labor Party on 30 August 1909. Secretary of the Queensland anti-conscription campaign committees in 1916-17, McDonald used his considerable administrative abilities to facilitate a 'No' vote both times. An extrovert, McDonald enjoyed a beer, could tell a good story, and liked old-time musical comedies. While he used his secretarial skills in the interests of the A.W.U. faction, he was never personally self-seeking, but he certainly facilitated the growth of an 'official' machine which, with its complaisant politicians, ultimately controlled the movement at the expense of the grassroots and the militant unions. John Curtin called him 'an admirable officer with sound judgment and resolute decision [whose] capacity for makeshift endeared him to all. Others, excluded from office and influence, were less charitable about this gentle, persistent, rule-mongering functionary. McDonald's early craft-union radicalism and personal political hopes were submerged by those structures, rules, and manipulations endemic in that Queensland Labor establishment which he had done so much to construct, refine, and facilitate. McDonald died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at Highgate Hill, Brisbane, on 18 September 1936. Although cremated with Anglican rites, McDonald had long maintained no formal creed. Source: adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mcdonald-lewis-7339