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The catalogue says rural village but the buildings say Town to me.

Niall McAuley Agreed!

Niall McAuley It's the Krazy Kataloguers in Library Towers once again!

Any clues from the shop names? Looks like "Household ......." on the shop name at the street corner. Cannot quite read the name on the shop front behind the cart.

Hassett at #9, I think, and Household Bazaar, maybe

www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marria...

suckindeesel Excellent. Date established for us, and location at University Church. Can you make out Gertie's father's job?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons No, but his farther’s job was National School Inspector.

‘On 26 June 1922, he was kidnapped by anti-treaty forces in reprisal for the arrest of anti-treaty officer, Leo Henderson; his kidnapping was a precipitating factor in the formal outbreak of the Irish Civil War, when government pro-treaty forces two days later attacked anti-treaty forces occupying the Four Courts.[1] O'Connell survived the fighting and spent the rest of the civil war as General Officer Commanding the Curragh Command.’

They had two children
O'Connell died on 19 February 1944, of a heart attack

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._%22Ginger%22_O%27Connell

National Library of Ireland on The Commons ‘Draper’

Suck Diesel Doesn't look like Draper...

Could it be an MGWR train?

www.westmeathcoco.ie/en/ourservices/planning/conservation...

Oretani Wildlife (Mike Grimes) Certainly could. We're in Westmeath. And is that MGW on the sides of the nearest car?

The world has always been a very dangerous place, although teeming with UNRECOGNIZED UNACKNOWLEDGED beauty. B/o the hominids. Will this ever change before it's too late?

Athlone-Mullingar-Dublin was double track at this time.

Athlone-Clara-Tullamore was not MGW.

Mullingar-Longford was double track.

It could be the Clara branch from Streamstown junction, or the Cavan branch North of Inny Junction.

The vulnerability of the local railways was demonstrated in the early hours of 9 November 1922, when anti-Treaty IRA units burned down the signal cabins at Streamstown, Castletown Geoghegan, and Horseleap on the main line of the Midland Great Western Railway. On the same night, the anti-Treaty IRA used explosives to destroy rail lines at a place called Ballinabarna Bridge between Moate and Streamstown, before commandeering a train. They set the train moving towards Athlone before jumping from the engine. Fortunately, it did not meet any other traffic on the line and came to a stop about two kilometres from Athlone.

A more serious incident followed on Sunday 14 January 1923 when an anti-Treaty IRA unit removed a long section of the railway track on the Streamstown-to-Moate line, at a point in which the line ran over a high embankment and across a bridge. Afterwards, the armed men went to Streamstown station where they boarded a goods train, towing 25 waggons and a second engine from Mullingar to Athlone. At gunpoint, they forced the driver and crew to disembark and then sent the train towards Moate. When it reached the bridge, the point at which the tracks had been removed, the engine crashed into the embankment and most of the carriages were derailed.

Despite the damage, railway workers repaired the line within a day although the Westmeath Examiner reported that the repair crews were ‘approached by unknown persons’, presumably members of the anti-Treaty IRA, who warned them that their efforts were futile. Such threats were, seemingly, common at that time and newspapers reported that multiple drivers and firemen working for the Midland Great Western Railway had received notices warning them not to convey National Army troops. Threats turned to actions on Tuesday 16 January when armed men ripped up another section of the track before hijacking a train travelling between Clara and Mullingar, They subsequently derailed that train by running it over the section of damaged track.