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Peter Ennis, top row, stands head and shoulders above this gathering of returned prisoners outside Liberty Hall in 1917.

Suck Diesel I am impressed! Please tell more.

A couple of date clues. Restoration was well underway by May 1917.
Evening Herald (Dublin) - Thursday 21 June 1917

The building has been recently undergoing structural alterations, owing to the damage done during the Rebellion, and is now practically restored to its original condition.

Freeman's Journal - Friday 11 May 1917

Republican flags were flown from the scaffolding around Liberty Hall.

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Labour Leader - Thursday 25 January 1917

We gathered in a bullet scarred and windowless wing of Liberty Hall, and discussed the prospects of a branch.

“Liberty Hall’s courageous caretaker”

“YOU are quite at liberty…” With these words, caretaker Peter Ennis greeted the early morning raiding party at Liberty Hall on Friday 22nd August 1919.

On the Wednesday prior to the raid, Christopher Quigley, a news vendor, had induced Private S Morrison, of the 3rd Battalion, Wiltshire Regiment, to procure a rifle for sale. A deal was struck for £2 and the rifle was passed through a window at the Hall. Quigley’s and Morrison’s subsequent arrests led to the raid.
A detailed account of the 4am raid and Ennis’ trial is documented in the British National Archives at Kew.
Having greeted the raiding party with the words, “You are quite at liberty”, Ennis continued his good humoured banter by asking, “Are you going to pay me overtime for this, sir?” The search uncovered firearms and Ennis, as the only resident, was arrested.
He was registered as prisoner 499 at Mountjoy Prison, where he was also listed as a ‘hunger striker’. An approval by the Chief Secretary of Ireland allowed Ennis to sign union papers while at Mountjoy.
Ennis’ court martial took place on 24th September 1919. He was successfully defended by the eminent republican barrister Patrick Lynch KC, who would later serve as Attorney General. Ennis co-accused Quigley, on the other hand, was sentenced to a year in prison.
In what seemingly was a reprisal for his acquittal, late one evening the Black and Tans ‘lifted’ Ennis from the Hall, brought him to the Custom House railings and beat him mercilessly on the head with revolvers.
Years later, Ennis’ obituary stated that he had “given himself up for dead” at the time. Suffering terribly, he dragged himself back over the cobbles at Beresford Place to the Hall and was able to close the door. According to the obituary, he then “swooned from loss of blood and lay almost unconscious until discovered the next morning”.
His obituary recalled that this was one of “many occasions” that Ennis had “exciting and almost fatal encounters with the armed forces of Dublin Castle”. During the Easter Rising, and under James Connolly’s orders to leave “as the union needed him”, he had staged a dramatic escape from the GPO under machine gun fire to return to Liberty Hall.”

For more, see

siptu.medium.com/liberty-halls-courageous-caretaker-1b5b4...

Image used on front cover of ‘The Impact Of The 1916 Rising: among the nations edited by Ruán O'Donnell, Irish Academic Press, ISBN 978 0 7165 2965’

archive.irishdemocrat.co.uk/book-reviews/impact-of-1916/

Strange grouping. It looks like the soldiers are protecting the harvesting. The man with the dog looks like the landowner (plus fours etc). Were they threatened?

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Could the date be wrong?

As you seem to imply, it's hard to say when the civil war was "over" . Really great photo. Thanks.

Moira Well, that's the question, isn't it? Big house, politicial allegiances, local issues?

A classic from the history books of my school time, it must have been cropped by Gill & Macmillan or whoever published our history books as I don't recall the wet cobbles and puddles in the foreground!

Have become quite conscious of wet paths, etc. in the photos. Think it's quite remarkable, given our climate, that so few look wet/muddy

Beautiful .

Great photo. What year was this taken? (Actually that would be nice additional information for all the photos in this collection).

Hi Sarah! I've been adding dates (exact or approximate) to all photos in the above the map slot, e.g. for this one: "This photo was taken some time in 1914..." D'you think it'd be better to include it in the Description area??

Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress

Did Poole do nothing but hang around outside that hotel with a camera photgraphing random mobs of suits?

7/34 clean shaven. Which proves nothing except that tastes change!

From the Irish Examiner on Tuesday, 6 August 1918...

The twenty-fourth annual Irish Trades Union Congress was opened in the City Hall, Waterford, yesterday, under most encouraging and happy circumstances. There was a very large and representative attendance, about 240 delegates from every part of the country being present. The spacious hall was filled to its utmost capacity, and the proceedings were characterised by unanimity and enthusiasm. A civic welcome was extended to the delegates by Councillor Ml. Kirwan, locum tenens for the Mayor, who was absent owing to illness, and local speakers also extended greetings to the delegates. The Congress will occupy three days.

beachcomber australia Looks like nine to me.