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Palace view (has to be these southern set of gates) - maps.app.goo.gl/4UUQvBH4xMFcpimT8

It would appear that this photo was cropped. The original has silly walkers waving boaters at serious talkers. c7.alamy.com/comp/2BWAKKC/the-conference-at-buckingham-pa...

Tuesday 21 July 1914, or Wednesday 22 ?? Some press cuttings via Trove ... They were cheered by Irish Guard soldiers as they passed nearby Wellington Barracks - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/210126719 Dillon "Picturesque Figure" - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/242285637 "The King [George V] Moves" - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/104992556 The King's speech - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/192917573

"DEMONSTRATIVE IRISH GUARDS. REPRIMAND IN BARRACKS. The Irish Guards, a number of whom loudly cheered Messrs. Redmond and Dillon on Wednesday as they were returning from the palace conference, were yesterday paraded in Wellington Barracks. Lieutenant-Colonel G. H. Morris, addressing the men, said he was sorry that soldiers in uniform should have given way to a political demonstration. NOTIFICATION TO SOLDIERS. The War Office has issued an order prohibiting soldiers from associating with the Ulster and National Volunteers.

From - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198638533

According to the Wikipedia article on the Government of Ireland Act 1914: To save prolonged debate in parliament, George V called the Buckingham Palace Conference with two MPs each from the Liberal, Conservative, IPP and Irish Unionist parties. The conference, held between 21 and 24 July 1914, achieved very little.

Getty Images have a different photo of a tricolour protest in Trafalgar Square, dated 1922 The protest was for the release of Irish prisoners www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/flag-bearers-hold-th...

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If Feb 1922 (though fashion may be more recent) . . . ."a monster demonstration for the purpose of demanding the release of all Irish political prisioners at present in English jails including the Connaught Rangers was held on Sunday under the auspices of the Irish Self-Determination League of Great Britain. speeches were delivered from three platforms and the Tricolour was displayed around the monument . . . . Art O'Brien . . . . Sean Wickham . . . ." (Weekly Freeman Sat. 18 Feb 1922 Pg. 5)

[Aside] I never knew this: "The column also had a symbolic importance to Adolf Hitler. If Hitler's plan to invade Britain, Operation Sea Lion, had been successful, he planned to move it to Berlin." - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson%27s_Column

From Trove: A large Irish demonstration in Trafalgar-square demanded the release of 180 Irish prisoners who ara still in gaol, on the ground that their retention was at variance with the spirit of the Irish agreement. Article from The Advocate, Melbourne, 16 Feb 1922, in a longer article about Irish News. Doesn't give the date of the protest.

An article in the Belfast Telegraph - Friday 26 November 1999 mentions Francis Montgomery Moore, official chronometer maker to the government when he died in 1897. He began his horological business in Limerick, and later had branches in Belfast and Dublin. And,

One of their sons was Frank Frankfort Moore the novelist who lived in Sussex and whose first wife was a sister of the celebrated writer Bram Stoker.

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John Spooner Not even six degrees of separation!

And here's his moustache in a picture which accompanied news of his death which appeared in the on 16th May 1931 He died at his home at 97, Marina, St Leonards the previous Monday, 4 days before his 76th birthday

Perhaps this one?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frankfort_Moore

And in King and his Navy and Army` - Saturday 12 November 1904