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at first glance it could be mistaken for an alpine hunting party. they seem not to be dressed to rough it as a flying column, so it would have been a prepared photocall?

May be a red herring, but a Capt. McGrath was appointed Quartermaster to the 55th Infantry Battalion in a list issued in March 1923 (Freeman's Journal). Would he have been based at the Prison Garrison in Waterford? Bit of a stretch?

Foxglove Was just reading recently that the shirt, collar, and tie (though not everyone here has one on) were to denote respectability. Also learned the Irish for Flying Column is Colún Reatha (running column) which I think is lovely.

Foxglove yes that was my thought.

Wonder was Mr.Poole blindfolded on his way to take it ? Lots of "photoshopping" on the background...... I have a similar posed photograph from Castlecomer.

22 August 1922 was a Two-esday ...

There is a lady in the middle whose hat looks like hair, and a young gentleman seated in front and right of her, whose hair looks like a hat.

Edit: The gent is Tom Barry ?!

Hmmm - wiki says 21/08/1921 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Barry,_August_1921_(cropped)_(cropped).png

Here we go ...

"AN Irish television series claims to have solved an ongoing dispute over the seating arrangement for what it calls the ‘greatest wedding photo of all time’.
The famous photo – of the wedding of Irish freedom fighter Tom Barry and his wife Leslie Price in 1921 – has long held a fascination for Irish historians.
The image, taken at Vaughan’s Hotel on Parnell Square in Dublin on August 22nd 1921 – came about exactly one year before General Michael Collins was shot. Collins is seen in the back row, holding his head to one side, and many believe it was because he did not want to be readily identified at the time. ... "

via - www.southernstar.ie

Tom Barry: 'We May Have Great Men, But We’ll Never Have Better'

29 Parnell Sq. West.
maps.app.goo.gl

This one for a motorbike

Suck Diesel Signed by a Captain Walsh, rather than a Commandant Finnigan. And John Frost has the most amazing signature!

It does not say what type of Ford Doctor Dorothy was driving. Betting on a Model T. In July 1923 the first completely Irish made Ford happened in Cork- www.rte.ie/centuryireland/articles/ford-in-cork-completes...

11 April 1923 was a Wednesday ...

“Dorothy Stopford Price (9 September 1890 – 30 January 1954) was an Irish physician who was key to the elimination of childhood tuberculosis in Ireland by introducing the BCG vaccine.”
“ Medical professor Victor Millington Synge stated that "To her, more than anyone else, is due the credit of introducing into Ireland modern ideas of, and preventive measures against tuberculosis. Few of the many thousands of children and young people who have been saved from death or tedious illness by BCG realize what they owe to Dorothy Price.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Price#

In 1901, she is 10. A large and prosperous household.