jamessimonton

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Guerrillas in the mists (of time)

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 10 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    22 August 1922 was a Two-esday ...

    There is a lady in the middle whose hat looks like hair, and a young gentleman seated in front and right of her, whose hair looks like a hat.

    Edit: The gent is Tom Barry ?!
  • beachcomber australia said:


    Hmmm - wiki says 21/08/1921 - commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Barry,_August_1921_(cropped)_(cropped).png
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Here we go ...

    "AN Irish television series claims to have solved an ongoing dispute over the seating arrangement for what it calls the ‘greatest wedding photo of all time’.
    The famous photo – of the wedding of Irish freedom fighter Tom Barry and his wife Leslie Price in 1921 – has long held a fascination for Irish historians.
    The image, taken at Vaughan’s Hotel on Parnell Square in Dublin on August 22nd 1921 – came about exactly one year before General Michael Collins was shot. Collins is seen in the back row, holding his head to one side, and many believe it was because he did not want to be readily identified at the time. ... "

    via - www.southernstar.ie
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Tom Barry: 'We May Have Great Men, But We’ll Never Have Better'
  • O Mac said:
    29 Parnell Sq. West.
    maps.app.goo.gl

Crossing the Hellespont? Not quite but it is wet!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 12 older comments, and then…
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Dungarvan? Streetview
  • Niall McAuley said:
    The railway bridge opened in 1878. Nothing else in the photo survives, I think.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr is sometimes amazing! In 1983 via Neil Smith
  • Sunny Harry said:
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Many of these STPs were revisited by Lawrence/French later, but not this one I think.

The view through the trees.

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

  • 16 older comments, and then…
  • Robin Parkes said:
    It's a blind guess but could it be Sugar Loaf?
  • Sharon Corbet said:
    I think it's Cromwell's Bridge in Glengarriff.
  • Niall McAuley said:
    617 next door in the catalogue says Cromwell's Bridge, Glengariff
  • beachcomber australia said:
    It has lost several arches since then. Here at latest 1883 via British Library
  • Niall McAuley said:
    I am a bit doubtful, several sources seem to suggest Cromwell bridge was a single arch.