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“Abstract
While the participation of Irishmen in the Great War has prompted much scholarship, the
commemoration of their involvement – and in particular how Irish journalism reported and
interpreted such commemorations – has been less examined. This article argues that the
journalism surrounding the annual Armistice Day commemoration was a central factor in the
battle for power in independent Ireland. It finds that the annual commemoration played a
major part in the identity politics of the Irish Free State and that this was greatly intensified
by journalistic argument about the motives of those who had fought in the Great War, what
that war meant in relation to the freedom of small nations, and how best to commemorate
those who had died. It also finds that while such journalistic argument helped engender an
air of stigma about Irish involvement in the Great War, later journalistic arguments played a
key role in removing that stigma”

doras.dcu.ie/24043/1/Whose War Was It Anyway.pdf

doras.dcu.ie/24043/1/Whose%20War%20Was%20It%20Anyway.pdf

Armistice anniversaries 1926

youtu.be/Q7NaTcxTiAU?si=q80g8fPzcPfVnMyM

Funny/peculiar 'a's and 'e's in that script ...

The lads in the back of the truck seem to be enjoying themselves all the same.

Try as I might, I've found no press reports of Sinn Fein MPs being arrested on Armistice Day 1926.

There's a great range of ages, some promising moustaches and some mature ones. They were no inter -cert classs at any rate. Look at the banding on the hurl of the young lad to the priests left? It is almost a lethal weapon with that metal banding. I had a hurl like that once and it was positively dangerous and a threat to life, it lasted for years but! The writing on the hurl held by the man third from the left in the middle row says "Coolagown" which is a place near Fermoy in Cork and seems to have had strong Waterford connections. See www.castlelyonsgaa.com/clubHistory.php

Best to remember that it was a teacher training college and thus attracted students from all over. Funny though, most people in Waterford never use the word hurl, except when throwing things. Hurley is the preferred description, Perhaps that explains a lot?

A wonderful old photo and taken at my old school. When I went here in the 70's there were boarders from all over the country there.

Paul O'Farrell Ah, a De La Salle boy! And desmondg47 when did it stop being a teacher training college?

I believe it was in 1936 when the Minister for Education Tom Derrig (FF) refused to have it made a constituent college of the NUI.

Bob Mockler was the Dublin Captain on the day. I was at Croke Park yesterday - still very disappointed by the result.

Don't forget. EDIT Found this about the above photo. Michael Collins addresses the Kilkenny team before the Leinster Final against Dublin, Sept 1921. From left: Paddy Donoghue(Dicksboro), Mattie Power(Dicksboro), Dick Grace(Tullaroan), Michael Joyce(Callan), Martin Egan(Threecastles), Bill Kenny(Lisdowney), Jack Holohan(from Johnstown, played with Tullaroan), Michael Collins and Harry Boland. Collins and Boland(Chairman, Dublin County Board and Sinn Féin TD for Roscommon), though great friends, found themselves on opposite sides in the Civil War which would claim both of their lives within a year. See www.dicksborogaa.com/paddy-odonoghue.php

Mockler Played for Tipperary in his early career and Dublin later on. Note it was a Seventeen man game then!!!. We have come across Mr Mockler before. Robert "Bob" Mockler (born 1885) was an Irish hurler who played as a midfielder for the Tipperary and Dublin senior teams from 1909 until 1924. Mockler made his first appearance for the Tipperary team during the 1908 championship and was a regular member of the starting seventeen for the next few seasons. He subsequently enjoyed a decade long career with Dublin before retiring from the game after the 1924 championship. During that time he won three All-Ireland medals, five Leinster medals and one Munster medal.[1] Mockler captained Dublin to the All-Ireland title in 1920. Mockler began his club career with Horse and Jockey before later winning six county championship medals with Faughs in Dublin from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mockler

DannyM8 Hadn't forgotten, just really liked this one. Saw blurry photo of Bob Mockler somewhere, and I've put a note on who I think he might be in the shot - absolutely willing to be corrected!

I think that is Bob to the Right of Collins see and