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Here is an account of the meeting from the Irish Times August 5th 1924. The President and Vice President of the Executive Council , t Minister of External Affairs, the Chief Justice, the Commander in Chief, His Highness Prince Mirza Khan, Afra ed Dooleh, His Highness the Count von Schlitz, Gennant von Goertz, His Excellency Dr. Magalhaes de Azeredo, Senhor Figueredo, His Excellency the Baron Palmstierna. President Cosgrave, who was accompanied by Colonel O’Reilly, A.D.C. and Captain Murphy, A.D.C., was presented by the Marquis MacSwiney, M.R.I.A., to Dr L.C. Purser, Vice-President of the Academy, and to the following members of the Council who wore their academic robes: - Dr R. Lloyd Praeger, Sir Frederick Moore, V.P.; Dr R.F. Scharff, Dr W.R. Fearon, Very Rev. Dr Lawlor, Dean of St Patrick’s; Dr Kirpatrick, Dr R.A.S. Macalister, De Best, V.P.; Mr E.J. Gwynn, Dr. George O’Brien, Mr. W. G. Strickland and Mr W.F. Butler and to Senator W.B. Yeats, Litt.D, M.R.I.A., and Dr R Macalister, Resident Secretary. The president of the Academy (Dr. Sydney Young, F.R.S.) and the provost of trinity College, the Primate (Dr. d’Arcy) and other members of the Council, were unable to be present owing to absence abroad. The guests were conducted to the Moore Library, where the foreign visitors were presented to President Cosgrave who, owing to his absence in London, had not previously met them. They were then entertained to tea in the reading room , and then proceeded to the library, where some of the famous Irish Manuscripts possessed by the Academy were on view. Having examined these unique literary treasures they accompanied their hosts to the National Museum, where they were received by Mr J. J> Buckley, M.R.I.A., Acting Director, and inspected the Academy’s famous museum of Irish antiquities. We were informed that the exhibition of manuscripts and rare Irish books at the Academy will be open to the public each week-day except Saturdays, from 11.0 till 2.0. A fine collection of similar objects relating to Ireland has been arranged in the National Library, in Kildare street, and is open from 11.00 till 5.0 during the next fortnight.

DannyM8 Excellent, Danny, so we have an exact date too - Monday, 4 August 1924!

Carol Maddock And a couple of NLI connections - Praeger and the last paragraph of the IT piece!! We need the notes feature for this one.

www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-irish-academy/query/Prince Pathe coverage of the meeting and our picture

And this event at the RIA was part of the celebration of the first Tailteann Games. On the Persian Prince Mirza Riza Khan, the Irish Independent said:

In recognition of the splendid work done by this eminent Persian in the cause of peace, many distinctions of a literary and philosophic nature have been conferred upon him. He was the first Persian delegate to the League of Nations, and wrote an ode addressed to the first conference in favour of peace held at The Hague. This ode was translated into fifteen languages. The Prince is at present residing at Monte Carlo, where he owns a beautiful villa. It has been arranged to put the Chief Secretary’s Lodge in the Phoenix Park at his disposal during his stay in Dublin.

(Thursday, 24 July 1924)

I love this one, such a tranquil scene and so very atmospheric. The two waiting to go out fishing, the long well constructed rowing boats their rowlocks standing out clearly and refelectd in the still water, the little steam pinnace all covered up for the weather and the clarity of the whole thing? This is outstanding! I was wondering if the shade above the stack on the steam boat was early smoke but it is in fact nicely situated weed in the background! Another beauty NLI, so very well chosen to begin our day with!

Splendor of horizontal lines...

Yaroslav Gerzhedovich Beautifully put!

I wonder is the island behind the Lake Isle of Inishfree? :)

Sarah Well it's on Lough Gill somewhere...

I wonder if this could be Gerhart Johan Robert Hauptmann (1862-1946), German playwright, poet and novelist, and Nobel Laureate in Literature for 1912?

It could be a photo at a younger, slimmer time than nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1912/hau... or www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/257058/Gerhart-Hauptmann Gerhart Hauptmann was 50 when he got the Nobel in 1912. Does this photo seems a little younger than that? Perhaps it was a studio portrait used for publicity.

He looks like Gerhart Hauptmann, if you compare this photo to the images on Wikimedia. The first one there seams to be a copy of this photo.

I agree that the Wikimedia collection of images does support this identification. The source for the Wikimedia copy of this picture appears to be a 1905 Polish book of Polish literature. So that would account for the fact that he looks younger than 50 in this photo -- he was no older than 43. The book is by Wilhelm Feldman (1868-1919), '''Współczesna literatura polska'' (Contemporary Polish literature, 1905). LoC has a later edition at lccn.loc.gov/76525697.