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Men on hunger strike, one holding a placard which reads "we have 'Em"

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 8 older comments, and then…
  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    www.google.com.au/search?q=%22we+have+%27Em%22+Irish+hung...
  • Mike said:
    Like a publicity shot for a tobacco company. Look forward to their identity being revealed.
  • Sam said:
    If you scroll down through this page www.rollofhonourirl.com/more-photos.php you will see a Volunteer named William O'Shaughnessy, executed in Ennis, and he bears a strong resemblance to the man on second from the left, back row.
  • guliolopez said:
    I would suspect these are Civil War hunger-strikers (~Oct 1923) rather than War of Independence hunger-strikers (~1920). I base this mainly on the attire, the demeanor, and the fact that the image was taken at all (less likely a "behind walls" propaganda photo like this would've been tolerated during the Tan War). Somewhat oxymoronically I suspect it's the Civil War precisely because we do not know who these men were. I suggest the latter because, while hunger strikes were not uncommon during the independence movement (~1916-~1920), most undertaken in that period often involved higher-profile names. Like Ashe (1917) or MacSwiney (1920). That we do not know these men in itself suggests to me that we are post civil war here. When many thousands protested their continued post-war detention via hunger strike. (>460 men participated in Mountjoy, >70 in Cork jail, >3000 in the Curragh camps, >1700 in Newbridge, etc. Cumann na mBan members also participated. In a near two-month period Oct-Nov 1923). An article from the 1930s described it as the "biggest hunger strike in history", and several men died, including Denis Barry and Andrew Sullivan. Both in late November 1923. No concessions were forthcoming however, and the anti-treaty leadership called a halt to the 1923 strike after a little more than 40 days. (While it wouldn't do to trivialise these things, this summary includes a quote attributed to one prisoner: "“Be cripes” [...] We bate Christ by a day!"). If this is the 1923 strike, then I doubt the image is from the Curragh/Tintown. I would guess it's Mountjoy. The NLI catalogue has a (partial?) list of names from Dublin who participated. Many interned in Mountjoy.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    guliolopez The background does look a bit like a photo I found yesterday of a different set of hunger strikers from October 1919. It was also taken by Keogh. So I'd agree that it is probably Mountjoy, but it still may be an earlier hunger strike.

Thomas Ashe, half-length portrait

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Bell, book and candle!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Sharon Corbet said:
    The inquest was held on the 27th October 1920, according to the Pall Mall Gazette of that day.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    An article on Father Dominic: Fr Dominic ministered to MacSwiney throughout his hunger strike in Brixton Prison and was present at his death on 25 October 1920.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The prison at Brixton still has a tall brick wall like the one seen at right, as in this Streetview. (Not suggesting that is the same spot).
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Previously on this channel:
    "Two unidentified Franciscan friars walking alongside a church carrying an umbrella" is Fathers Bibby and O'Connor
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    Here they are outside the gate with some police officers.