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Phew! Still standing in 2011 via Tom Halpin

" ... While the O'Connell family had previous associations with the area, it was Daniel O'Connell's grandparents, Domhnall Mór Ó Conaill and Máire Ní Dhonnchadha Dhuibh, who built or extended the house in the 1700s.[3] The oldest part of the house, built in 1702, was demolished in 1967 for safety reasons during the restoration work. Daniel O'Connell built the two-storey south wing facing the sea and the library wing to the east in 1825, the oldest surviving part of the house. The chapel was added in 1844 and was modelled on the ruined monastery chapel of Derrynane (Ahamore) Abbey on nearby Abbey Island. Restoration work was completed in 1967, when the house was officially opened to the public as a museum by the then president Éamon de Valera. ..."

From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynane_House

Here's his birthplace, in slightly worse condition, at the Eastern entrance to Cahirsiveen.

Via Trove, some good and bad news ...

1846 - Tenants in strife - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226465215?searchTerm=%...
and trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36244986?searchTerm=%2...

1892 - Hat brush ! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111319138?searchTerm=%...

1926 - File book found - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/291964969?searchTerm=%...

1929 - Colourful description of the house - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118065843?searchTerm=%...

Part of the 1929 glowing description linked above ...

" ... The Open Door
There is no formidable or ostentatious entrance: the drive might be part of the green lane leading to it, just as the grounds of the house mingle imperceptibly with the surrounding woods. There is no note of hostility or aggression to mar this soft approach, no injunctions sending tradesmen to the back door, or warning you to beware of the dog; no barbed wire, no locked doors marked 'Private,' no threats to trespassers. Derrynane has never condescended to such, things. Even the shrubs are left to your honor. The gate is open, the drive is free; even the hall-door stands wide and inviting. No echo of the civil war seems to have resounded here; not a faintest breath of the strife left its mark on it. How did it persist, so loved and imperturbable, when the best in our national life had turned sour and offensive? In searching for an answer, we were more attracted by the ordinary coats and hats hanging in the hall than by the crossed swords on the staircase. We were led into the dining-room, and the maid proceeded to show us the handsome pieces of silver presented to O'Connell by admirers, lifting some eggs out of a dish to enable us to examine it. But the eggs were more important than any inscription; and the remains of a recent meal on the table had more significance than Robert Emmet's heavy gun, or the pistol used in the duel with D'Esterre. Touches of Continuity. Similarly, a copy of yesterday's paper lying on a chair meant more than the signature of Louis XVII. on the wall under the date of 1790. Walking through the rooms, we noted avidly those evidences of present-day life: a basket of needlework on the drawingroom table; an open, book on the library shelf, near a chair with creased cushions; and we were more glad of the little recent shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes by the altar than even of the Papal rescript permitting the erection of the Chapel. For those touches of continuity are what give Derrynane its unique character. Here you do not come to a dryasdust museum; you' art not met at the door by a paid official, ready to overwhelm you with, the guide-book patter. You have come to the home of gentlefolk, in which life has flowed on continuously and tranquilly since the Liberator's day. The present occupants of the house are two ladies, the great-granddaughters of Daniel O'Connell. Therefore a partial explanation of its permanence is that Derrynane House has never passed into alien hands— its custodians have always been of the Liberator's flesh and blood, the surest interpreters and the most jealous guardians of its spirit. ... "

The ‘shaking hand of Dublin’

“The Lord Mayor’s Great Chain of Office The Lord Mayor’s Great Chain of Office dates from 1698 and was provided by King William III following a petition from Lord Mayor of Dublin Bartholomew Van Homrigh, who was the first Lord Mayor to wear the Chain. This Chain replaced the previous Lord Mayor’s Chain, provided by King Charles II, which was taken to France by Lord Mayor Terence McDermott following the Battle of the Boyne in 1690. It was never found leading to the belief that it was melted down and used as a form of money by the Wild Geese in exile. The Lord Mayor’s Great Chain is a 22ct. gold chain of office composing of links representing the Tudor rose (12), trefoil-shaped knot (12) and links in the shape of the letter S (26) hence the alternative name of the Chain – the Collar of SS. The design is repeated throughout the length of the collar. At each shoulder is a harp and at the lowest point is a link in the shape of a portcullis which is repeated at the front. From the front is suspended a circular 3.25” gold medal with a bust of William III in relief. The Maker of the Chain is not known and the medal was made by James Roettier of London. The Lord Mayor’s Chain is only worn at important Civic events including the election of the Lord Mayor, Civic Receptions and Freedom of the City ceremonies. It is currently held in City Archives having previously been on display in City Hall Exhibition. A 9 ct gold replica is worn by the Lord Mayor on a day to day basis and a silver plated replica is used by the Lord Mayor when travelling abroad.” councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/documents/s22805/Chains%20o...

Wikipedia on Alfie Byrne

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000021574 is another election poster printed by Monson, Robinson

In this List of mayors of Dublin at wikipedia, we learn that the position was suspended from 1924 to 1930, no doubt as a result of Independence, Byrne was Lord Mayor from 1930-39.

Evidently people used to say “prunes” instead of “cheese” when being photographed. PRUNES !

Order of the Holy Sepulchre???? Just wild guess

Count George Noble Plunkett died March 12th 1948 aged 96... photograph taken a good few years previous! ..catalogue says ca:1920

Image searches give back nothing, nada, zero hits.

I recognize 2nd row, 2nd from right, seen here previously in Paris and London.

Art O'Briain:



Is that beardy lad beside him the same Fintan Murphy as in this one? (guessed at 1919-20)

James Green Douglas, is second from right. www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/james_green_douglas.htm Mr C J France, is far right i2.wp.com/www.markholan.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AC...

We have seen "X"s before on Hogan photos. Makes them look like targets.

Picture from Freeman's Journal - Monday 14 February 1921
Weekly Freeman's Journal - Saturday 19 February 1921

Other press reports say that 5 of the 7 members of the delegation were Quakers.

In order that the truth of the existing conditions in Ireland should be known, the Committee sent a delegation of American citizens, all of whom were members of the religious Society of Friends, to make an impartial investigation and ascertain to what extent the American Committee might be called upon for aid. The delegation consisted of Messrs. R. Barclay Spicer, Phila- delphia, Pa. ; Oren B. Wilbur, Greenwich, N. Y. ; Philip W. Furnas, Canby, Ind. ; William Price, Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Baker, Everett, Pa.; and Walter C. Longstreth, Philadelphia, Pa. They were accompanied by Messrs. C. J. France, Seattle, Wash., Chair- man, and Samuel D. McCoy, New York City, Secretary, and arrived in Ireland on February 12, 1921. Their report, which is printed in full on pages 62 to 67, was used as the basis of the amount of relief work that the Committee might have to furnish. archive.org/details/irelandcommitt00amerrich/page/48/mode... So if that's them, we're missing a few.

At the annual meeting of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society in Dublin on March 22nd last, at which Mr. France was present, the annual report was submitted. So possibly March 1921?