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The list of the pallbearers is here.

Michael Collins.

By a combination of circumstances I (with no known Irish connections) have my middle name Michael because of this man. Sort of.

My father was born in 1922, and my grandmother really really liked the name Michael. But of course the one Michael in all the papers at the time was General Collins. I doubt very much whether Grannie Spooner was following the goings-on in Ireland at the time, but although she liked the name, she probably didn't want a name so closely associated with whatever unpleasantness was happening, and so my father was named Philip.

Over three decades later I was born. I don't think my parents particularly wanted the name Micheal, but Grannie still really really liked it for some reason, and if her son couldn't be a Michael, then it would have to be her first grandson. She must have had some clout in the family, because as a compromise I ended up as John Michael.

Personally I don't like the name much, and never use it. My siblings occasionally make muttered accusations of favouritism and privilege because they have no middle names.

And all because of Michael Collins being in the news in 1922.

John Spooner Nice story John Michael! I always thought of Michael as being the name of the first policeman who was ordered by the Lord to throw Lucifer and his minions out of heaven! Mine was an anti-Free State household yet on our wall were a photograph of deValera and a painting of Michael Collins!
Looking at the list that Sharon has provided the only name that jumps out at me was Dalton and I was wondering if that was Emmett Dalton?????

National Library of Ireland on The Commons No, his brother Charles.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 2017 via Juergen Seim

Yikes! Google Maps Tomb View - goo.gl/maps/ZkHhKBiqRNhsbymQA

Daniel O'Connell, I like everyone else touched his coffin

The original French / Lawrence glass plate is interesting to compare - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000320310

Just noticed the inscriptions on the far left wall have been re-ordered; I wonder why?

Flickr is sometimes amazing! Via Internet Archive Book Images from a different angle, to the right. Oddly the vegetation (ivy etc) seems the same, but the open windows do not. Dated by 1916, which doesn't really help ... And in 2006 via John Tinsley -

BUT... the wikipedia article - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_College_(Dublin) - has this ... "In 1902 the name Albert Agricultural College was adopted. ...", implying this photo with just "Albert College" written on it was before the 1902 name change. Also an almost exact 'now' view - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_college_front1.JPG

There is also a view of the west facade (to the left); I think it was taken at the same time as this 'cos of the three top right windows (top left windows here) are open in similar pattern - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000040802 Where is everyone today ... ?

It began life in 1838 as a model farm for National Teachers. It is worth remembering that Agricultural Science was an important subject for National Teachers in a very agricultural country. Carysfort Teacher Training college in Blackrock had its own working farm until its closure in 1988. The Albert College was acquired by UCD in 1926. In 1979 it became the first of two National Institutes of Higher Education, a short lived experiment as they both became universities, DCU and UL, in 1989.

25" OSI showing the college. It's not on the 6", but the Cassini map shows it as part of UCD.