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Military patrol

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • Ilia Alshanetsky said:
    superb shot
  • O Mac said:
    Little change Church Hill.. maps.app.goo.gl/J5vfHHwTPVPTU6ZYA
  • Foxglove said:
    there is a cat and it could be a dog in the distance. memories as a child of this style of military patrolling (NI) when half of the troops would split walking backwards.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Foxglove I'm probably lucky. Never saw that (NI) patrolling in person, just on television.
  • John Spooner said:
    Foxglove Carol Maddock One of my memories of cycling through Newry (on my way from Rosslare to Larne) some time in the early 1990s was of 4 soldiers escorting a policemen on his beat. There were 2 on each side of the road, ahead and behind the policeman, looking around them and moving from doorway to doorway. What struck me most was that the locals (including the policeman) were going about their business as if the soldiers weren't there. I suppose that for them it was just part of everyday life.

The Long and The Short of it!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Eamon de Valera arriving to unveil the Dick McKee memorial on 10th June 1951.
    In 1918 he was released from prison and he returned to Ireland to become Commander of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Volunteers.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Suck Diesel Great to have the date! Where is that memorial?
  • Suck Diesel said:
  • Suck Diesel said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons Finglas village, I’ll try for a streetview
  • Suck Diesel said:
    maps.app.goo.gl/unvaPPzcHUrkoF5f6?g_st=ic
    Main St Finglas

A time to kill?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Previously (four years ago!) -
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I think it is more likely to be Killing Time as in waiting about.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    HOGW 138 is Wilson again, in front of the same window with another officer. Looks like the same time of day, cigarette in hand, thumb in his belt. I think it is the same day - that one is dated Oct 1922.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Captain Rev. Denis J. Wilson Chaplain to the forces. Army Headquarters. Michael Barracks. Co. Cork” catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000535057
  • Carol Maddock said:
    I'm inclined to agree with Niall McAuley that the title of this photo in the catalogue is more to do with waiting around. I know little about warfare, civil war or otherwise, but it strikes me it has ever been 95% hanging around / 5% frantic activity and terror. The titles that Denis J. Wilson gave to the photos in this Hogan-Wilson collection are not dispassionate cataloguer style at all, at all. This is from the press release that accompanied the NLI's 2010 exhibition, Witness to War...
    Rev. Wilson composed titles for the photographs, and this text is in bold on the exhibition captions. Any amendments are noted in square brackets, but for the most part his text has not been changed. Rev. Wilson’s bias in favour of the Irish nationalists in the War of Independence, and subsequently for the Free State of the Civil War, can be clearly seen in his choice of captions ... Hogan may also have been biased, or he may have been acting from commercial interests as the newspapers were carefully censored by the Free State government during the Civil War...