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Taken in 2091 - how did they manage that? Was Mr Figgis a Time Lord?

Darrell Edmund Figgis (Irish: Darghal Figes; 17 September 1882 – 27 October 1925) was an Irish writer, Sinn Féin activist and independent parliamentarian in the Irish Free State. The little that has been written about him has attempted to highlight how thoroughly his memory and works have been excised from Irish popular culture. From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Figgis With a Homburg hat placed at a jaunty angle and sporting a perfectly trimmed ginger beard, in which he took inordinate pride, the impeccably dressed Darrell Figgis was a familiar sight in war-torn Dublin. From - www.independent.ie/lifestyle/the-short-and-tragic-life-of...

Possibly a Georgian doorway? Red brick to the left, a pillar, and a very worn step, not a new building at the time. But only a small step up from the street...

His beard was unusually red in this portrait by Estella Frances Solomons - www.artnet.com/artists/estella-frances-solomons/darrell-f...

His dapperosity (technical term) was a gift to all artists and cartoonists... Grace Gifford Shemus Even dapper in a prison cell according to Tom Lalor

another quick morning Google! yet another outstanding example of the wealth and diversity of personalities that created early 20th century ireland

I remember once reading that his son, as once a commercial pilot, use to relax by reading and memorising flight timetables .......

Foxglove My father used to do that too...and I thought he was the only one.

was a architect also. www.dia.ie/architects/view/1900/FITZGERALD-DESMOND

Himself in 1928 by Lafayette, with a Bovril ad: NPA MKN9

“The Irish Volunteers was a paramilitary organisation formed in November 1913. It was set up in response to an article by Eoin MacNeill in the nationalist newspaper, An Claidheamh Soluis. The article called on nationalists to arm themselves in order to achieve Home Rule.

With the advent of the First World War, there was a split in the Irish Volunteers. This was because the leader of the Nationalist Party, John Redmond, called on all Irish Volunteers to support the British war effort. Those who agreed with Redmond became the National Volunteers. Those who did not want to support the British in the war remained the Irish Volunteers, many of whom eventually took part in the 1916 Rising”

"the first item on the agenda of any Irish organisation is the split"
- Brendan Behan

Great to see there is a Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy in Company B ...

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The catalogue says this is September 1914, the same month the Volunteers split over support for WW1

Niall McAuley Missed September. Mea culpa!