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How is he walking with just one leg??

"Augustine Birrell KC (19 January 1850 – 20 November 1933) was a British Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property, and for extending university education for Catholics. But he was criticised for failing to take action against the rebels before the Easter Rising, and resigned. A barrister by training, he was also an author, noted for humorous essays. ... " More at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Birrell Ed. - Also including this which might explain the look on his face in 1914 - "Personal Life While Birrell's first phase as Chief Secretary was a clear success, the period from about 1912 onwards saw something of a decline in Birrell's career which was also mirrored in his domestic life. Birrell's second wife Eleanor had been suffering from an inoperable brain tumour and this eventually caused her to lose her sanity. This affected Birrell deeply, privately and publicly, but he did not tell his political colleagues, who were simply given to understand that she did not care for social life. There were two sons of the marriage Francis and Anthony. The quality of his public work deteriorated and as one historian has noted the severe personal strain must have been a contributory factor in "...the uncharacteristic combination of excessive zeal and indecision which marked [Birrell's] response to the Dublin industrial agitation of 1913".[39] Only after Eleanor died in 1915 did Birrell begin to regain some of his old energy and effectiveness as a minister."

Via Trove, a couple of glowing contemporary (1916) articles about Mr Birrell - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/145762823 trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/220918796

And, on and on it goes and will continue.

The stairs behind him might be these ones, on Downing St alongside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Missouri Pacific, not M-K-T.

Mr John Cullinan MP married Rita O'Meara on Wednesday 2nd April 1913 at Ardfinnan Parish Church. Minnie O'Meara was the bridesmaid, and Mr R Burke was best man. The bride was given away by her brother Mr James O'Meara. The bride "carried a handsome shower bouquet of white heather, lily-pf-the-valley, and white roses ... and wore a very beautiful diamond pendant, a gift from the Irish Party." (condensed from the report in Freeman's Journal 3rd April 1913)

The report also lists the 6 clergymen who were present in addition to the Very Reverend Canon Sheedy who performed the ceremony, and at whose house the wedding breakfast took place.

John Cullinan at wikipedia. Rita and Minnie in the 1901 Census.

I think this is at the Parochial House in Ardfinnan. You can see the corner of the house in one of the other photos of the event. Streetview of driveway.

By April the 10th he was back at work in Westminster: Hansard