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Mr James Delahunty MP Former MP for County Waterford Entered the House of Commons on 17 November 1868 Left the House of Commons on 24 March 1880 Also represented Waterford Borough

He died in 1885, so either the dates are wrong or this is a copy (although I think Poole copies are usually noted as such?)

A recognizable caricature here

Was Mr Poole making a copy of an earlier photo? James Delahunty died in 1885. And a 1872 Vanity Fair caricature - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Delahunty Delahunty "was laughed at because of the dullness of his oratory". In 1878 he caused amusement in the Commons by spreading on his bench sundry personal items taken from his bag in a long search for the notes for his speech on the Money Laws (Ireland) Bill. [Ed. SNAP !]

Deffo a copy! Style of clothes, etc. Anyone ever heard of McRedmond News?? From snippets in various newspapers, James Delahunty was a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party; of the Home Rule League; on the council of the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language; and active on the land question.

William John Lane? Per wikipedia, the Cork results in 1885 election for Parliament were: Cork City (Two members) Charles Stewart Parnell Maurice Healy County Cork East William John Lane County Cork Mid Charles Kearns Deane Tanner County Cork North James Christopher Flynn County Cork North East Edmund Leamy County Cork South J. E. Kenny County Cork South East John Hooper County Cork West James Gilhooly

Damn you, Niall McAuley! You beat me to the draw.

Or William Shaw? In 1880 we find: Cork (Two members) John Daly Charles Stewart Parnell County Cork (Two members) William Shaw David la Touche Colthurst

Carol Maddock William Elder or Younger?

Lane was born in 1849, 12 years older then William Redmond. Shaw was born in 1823, and would have been 70ish, so it must be Lane.

This is a beautiful studio portrait of a truly great Irishman who has been almost forgotten in light of the Rising and the war that followed it. He had achieved his objective of Home Rule only to be thwarted by the onset of the Great War and the fudge by the Government of the time! " John Edward Redmond (1 September 1856 – 6 March 1918) was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, MP in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 to 1918. He was a moderate, constitutional and conciliatory politician who attained the twin dominant objectives of his political life, party unity and finally in September 1914 achieving the promise of Irish Home Rule under an Act which granted an interim form of self-government to Ireland. However, implementation of the Act was suspended by the intervention of World War I, and ultimately made untenable after the Conscription Crisis of 1918. He was the elder brother of Willie Redmond and father of William Archer Redmond, both of whom were to serve as MPs in his party"

Redmond married twice, his first wife was a Dalton from Australia and she died after having borne three children. He married Ada Beesley and I suspect that this is Ada as there is little resemblance that I can detect between the young lady sitting at his knee and the lady with her hand on his shoulder!

It is a superb portrait! Looking large I feel I can touch his shoes as the detail and 3d quality is excellent.

The date must be before his death for starters!

His first wife Johanna died in 1889, he married Ada in 1899.