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Parke was born in 1857 at Clogher House[2] in Kilmore, County Roscommon, Ireland, and was brought up in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim. He graduated from the College of Surgeons in Dublin and was appointed to a post in Ballybay, County Monaghan. In 1881 he joined the British Army and served in Egypt[1] as a surgeon. Parke fought to Khartoum in relief of General Gordon in 1885 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

Parke campaigned with Henry Morton Stanley on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. This expedition lasted three years and many were saved from death by Parke's courage and medical skills. He was known as the ' man who had saved Stanley'.[3] He thus became the first Irishman to cross the African continent. During the expedition Parke bought a pygmy girl. They travelled together for over a year and she nursed him through malaria. In the end he was forced to leave her behind because her eyes could not adapt to sunlight after the darkness of the forest. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Heazle_Parke

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Sculptor, Percy Guy Wood. ..erected 1896.

Street view in all his current glory - maps.google.ie/maps?q=kildare+street+Dublin&hl=en&...

Nice shot.

domenico milella Thank you.

Per the DIA, this is by: Name: FOLEY, JOHN HENRY * Building: CO. DUBLIN, DUBLIN, LEINSTER LAWN, PRINCE ALBERT STATUE Date: 1868 Nature: Bronze.

It's still on Leinster Lawn, now next to the Natural History Museum storyscope7test.ssl.co.uk/objectstories/2856 www.dublininquirer.com/2016/01/06/brushing-up-have-you-ev...

Foley also did Goldsmith in Trinity:


And Father Mathew in Cork! He designed the O'Connell Monument in O'Connell street, which was completed after his death.

Hamilton AND Burke in trinity too, plus Grattan in College Green!

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12:25 - what's for lunch?

I studied Engineering there up to my graduation in 1988. I think we may have been the last year before Haughey moved in, in 1991 after big renovations. UCD Engineers relocated to Belfield.

In this Mulligan shot, you can see that the proposed statue of Hibernia surveying the globe (or whatever) was replaced by a hungover engineering student trying to complete a technical drawing assignment:

via David Ramalho ‘No entry’ Reminiscent of the architecture of our former colonial masters

well ... the shadow is almost under the bodies so ... I'd say the time here is noon... I leave the clothing to you all ! Seems it was a bit of a windy day (observing the flags on buildings).

Well, sure we may as well have the streetview: maps.google.ie/?ll=53.339816,-6.260855&spn=0.000026,0...

Is the tram horse drawn or is it just running someone over? I don't see any wires but there's a couple of legs up the front. edit: "Discussions towards electrification began in late 1890", so it's definitely a horse.

I assume it's at the top of Grafton Street. There wouldn't be any business for the sidecars at any other corner of the green.

None of the park's corners has a rounded fence today. Also the cobbled surface and the tramways have long been gone. Ironically, there are as many carts and horses in the picture as there are nowadays. Some things never change :)