nationalmuseumofireland

I have a vague memory of seeing this in the RDS in Ballsbridge?

I was just gonna say DannyM8 that it didn't like any room in the National Museum that I know. But those pillars behind do look like the columns supporting the mezzanine in the RDS exhibition hall. I may however just be proving that I don't spend enough time in our capital's cultural institutions :) www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/21050077350/

WALTER POLLOCK HAMILTON VC ... www.inistioge.ie/150/Walter_Pollock_Hamilton_VC_.html "A slightly over-life-size statue of Hamilton striding over an Afghan threatening him with a knife was produced in bronze-painted plaster by Charles Bell Birch in Dublin in around 1880. It is now on display in the National Army Museum, Chelsea, as is a plaque to him (set up in the Punjab Frontier Force Chapel, then in the sanctum crypt of St. Lukes Chapel, Chelsea)."

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Displaying this scene during the Siege of the British Residency in Kabul on September 3, 1879: "Hamilton faced the oncoming Afghan wave, and emptied his revolver into them before being overwhelmed and killed. His stand allowed his 5 surviving men to retreat inside the compound." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_British_Residency_in_K...

Oooh, another fire ladder! marked on the 25" as a Fire Escape. Trees now obscure this aspect in streetview

A set of fire ladders in Kingstown in the archive, and another in Monkstown

In this Bing bird's eye view, you can see that the long building with a skylight at right is the dead zoo.

Dating detail: swan necked lamp-post at left means after 1901 and tram electrification. No actual light on the lamp-post may mean it is during electrification works.

(Unlike many other streets, the swan necked lamp posts are still there in streetview).

The roundy yoke is a bit of cavalry armour (or derived from it, anyway - it's a gorget), and the horn suggests scouts, huntsmen or the postal service.

I believe This belt plate and gorget are still in the National Museum, rare pieces indeed I would say.

This is a nice piece on the Legion Irlandaise, militaryheritage.com/irish.htm

The story goes that the King of France found the Irish brigade very unruly with their drinking and fighting. He complained to their commanding office by saying " the Irish troops are more troublesome than the rest of the French army"

The reply from the commanding office was " yes your majesty, the enemy say the same"