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Both sides of the same coin and miles apart!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Seconds before this one? -
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    Junction of Kennedy Quay and Victoria Road I'd suggest, with the old footbridge over the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway in the distance and Marina Mills (now cut down to a single storey facade) to the left - Streetview: www.google.ie/maps/@51.8983713,-8.4608333,3a,75y,103.19h,...
  • Swordscookie said:
    Depending on when this was taken my own father could have been among those being escorted to the ship! He was arrested after the siege of the Strand Barracks in Limerick, imprisoned there for a while, transferred from there to Cork and thence to Dublin before ending up in Gormanstown in Co. Meath!
  • O Mac said:
    Taken from the SS Arvonia flic.kr/p/zAQsRX
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Model T Ford easily recognisable on the right; what is the one-eyed car on the left?

Daniel McKenna in uniform but who is/was he?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • Foxglove said:
    oh, starter for 10, he was chief of military staff between 1940 and 1949.
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    He apparently later became the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces. (Here he is with Oscar Traynor in c. 1953).
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Foxglove That's only 9 !!
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    There's a preview of a book here about the Reports of the Chiefs of Staffs, which has a potted history: Lieutenant General Daniel McKenna (1893–1975), born in Maghera, Derry; Second Derry Battalion, Irish Volunteers; Deputy OC, 2nd Northern Division IRA; Adjutant of Waterford and Claremorris Commands (1922–24); Adjutant, Southern Command (1924–30); Deputy QMG (1930–3); Director, Cavalry Corps, 1933–6; Deputy Quartermaster General (1936–9); Chief of Staff (1940–9); promoted to Lieutenant General from Major General in 1941; GOC designate of the Defence Forces (1941–6).
  • Foxglove said:
    ah beachcomber, you never experienced "BBC University Challenge/ Banner Gasgoine" opening call for a question.😉

Souvenirs of the Civil War

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Via Trove, Wednesday 5 July 1922 (?). See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/194721778?searchTerm=g...
  • O Mac said:
    Gresham Hotel on the right as evidenced in another Beehan photo taken slightly later. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000721612 Note. Free State soldier wearing German Pickelhelm helmet.. haven't seen that before! "Sir" James W Mackey no less? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000721608
  • Suck Diesel said:
    O Mac A paparazzo on right, I wonder who?
  • Niall McAuley said:
    In Streetview, you can see the dates Established 1777 Rebuilt 1925 cut into an upper story, along with a M for Mackey on a shield.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    We visited the rebuilt Gresham Hotel a couple of years ago -