irishvolunteers

Scarily easy using Google Lens -

"Saturday, January 22, 1916
Officers training camp began at Volunteers Hall, Sheares St, Cork, instructed by JJ O'Connell.
The course was to cover field work, elementary drill, physical drill, and lectures, according to the notice placed in the Irish Volunteer newspaper.
Most of the companies in the county mainly formed in the previous six months thanks to organisers like Terence MacSwiney, Sean Nolan and Daithi Barry were represented."

From - www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20375606.html

Text on the back of the photo reads:

MEN OF THE WEST (SHEARES ST. CORK - 1915)

INCLUDED IN THIS GROUP :-
1. Seán Sullivan (R.I.P)
2. C Ó Gormáin (Bailitheóir Cánach)
3. Seán Hales (Shot Dead - Dublin)
4. T. Hales (New F.F. T.D.)
5. Tadg Barry (Shot Dead - Ballykindlar Camp)
6. Comdt. O'Connell (Army)

All the names here - freepages.rootsweb.com/~bwickham/genealogy/uniforms.htm

"Officers Training Camp at Volunteers Hall, Sheares Street, Cork commenced Jan 22, 1916.

Front Row seated: Cornelius J. Meany, Cornelius Mahoney, Patrick J. Twomey, Martin O'Keefe, Michael Leahy, William Kelliher, James Murphy, Chris McSweeney.

Second Row: Sean O'Sullivan, Christopher O'Gorman, Michael Lynch, Sean Lynch, John Manning, Charles Wall, James Walsh, Sean Carroll, Riobard Langford, Maurice Ahern, Tom Hales, Tadgh Barry, Captain J. J. "Ginger" O'Connell.

Back Row: Paud O'Donoghue, Cornelius Ahern, Sean O'Driscoll, Eugene Walsh, Denis O'Brien, Sean Collins, Seamus Courtney, Jeremiah Mullane, Michael Hyde, Liam O'Brien, Michael McCarthy.
(Click here for Larger 160k photo)

(Identifications from "Rebel Cork's Fighting Story") "

Is this the place? I'm not 100% sure - maps.app.goo.gl/8h9KvhECqNi7JZXS6

More convinced it is the right streetview, "St Francis Hall, 20 Sheares Street" - www.corkcity.ie/en/cork-rocks-for-rory/rory-gallagher-sto... (relevant history)

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

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