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James Green Douglas, is second from right. www.douglashistory.co.uk/history/james_green_douglas.htm Mr C J France, is far right i2.wp.com/www.markholan.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AC...

We have seen "X"s before on Hogan photos. Makes them look like targets.

Picture from Freeman's Journal - Monday 14 February 1921
Weekly Freeman's Journal - Saturday 19 February 1921

Other press reports say that 5 of the 7 members of the delegation were Quakers.

In order that the truth of the existing conditions in Ireland should be known, the Committee sent a delegation of American citizens, all of whom were members of the religious Society of Friends, to make an impartial investigation and ascertain to what extent the American Committee might be called upon for aid. The delegation consisted of Messrs. R. Barclay Spicer, Phila- delphia, Pa. ; Oren B. Wilbur, Greenwich, N. Y. ; Philip W. Furnas, Canby, Ind. ; William Price, Philadelphia, Pa.; John C. Baker, Everett, Pa.; and Walter C. Longstreth, Philadelphia, Pa. They were accompanied by Messrs. C. J. France, Seattle, Wash., Chair- man, and Samuel D. McCoy, New York City, Secretary, and arrived in Ireland on February 12, 1921. Their report, which is printed in full on pages 62 to 67, was used as the basis of the amount of relief work that the Committee might have to furnish. archive.org/details/irelandcommitt00amerrich/page/48/mode... So if that's them, we're missing a few.

At the annual meeting of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society in Dublin on March 22nd last, at which Mr. France was present, the annual report was submitted. So possibly March 1921?

Per wikipedia: The Trinity College harp (also known as Brian Boru's Harp) is a medieval musical instrument on display in the long room at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. It is an early Irish harp or wire strung cláirseach. It is dated to the 14th or 15th century and, along with the Queen Mary Harp and the Lamont Harp, is one of the three oldest surviving Gaelic harps.[1] The harp was used as a model for the coat of arms of Ireland.

My attempt at reading the handwritten bit below: This harp dates from about A.D. 1400 AD. It is believed by Petrie (???) to have been used for ecclesiastical(?) purposes. It bears the ??? of O’Neil, and the symbol HIS in Gothic letters. It was actually played in the streets(?) of Limerick by Arthur O’Neil in 1760.

Currently on display (in restored form) in the Long Room:

Niall McAuley Later in the wiki article: In 1961 the harp was exhibited in London, and it was dismantled and reconstructed by the British Museum into the wider shape it has nowadays, being the playable mediaeval form. The earlier heraldic and trade mark designs that were modelled on it were based on a thinner form that was the result of a bad restoration in the 1830s. Visitors are therefore often surprised at how wide the real harp is, compared to the harp on Irish coins.

"Petrie" on the handwritten label is George Petrie (1 January 1790 – 17 January 1866), an Irish painter, musician, antiquary and archaeologist en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Petrie_(artist) Script below is: "See Petrie in Preface to Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland Ed. 1840"

Streetview GeoHive OSI 25" map. The photographer is on Blessington Street, Berkeley Street is crossing right-left, and we can see the length of Nelson Street.

Trams passing here would have been 9 and 10 to Phoenix Park and 19 and 20 to Glasnevin. According to wikipedia, the first of those electrified was #9, 22 November 1898.

Here are messrs Henry Lenahan and Patrick O'Neill in the 1901 census

While we're in the census, here is John Joseph Clarke, today's photographer, in 1901.

Niall McAuley Niall, I'm only popping in for a moment - will be back later. Would you mind putting that census link under the photo of J.J. himself, if it is he? (I know, I know, what did my last slave die of? :)