parliamentstreet

Ha. Let's debunk the date. The shadows on this one are actually pretty good so I will hie me to the solar calculator to start with (though frankly, 45 degrees above the horizontal looks pretty much like July 6th to me).

derangedlemur Watching you anxiously! Don't want anyone to argue that this poster was printed on a recently patented weatherproof paper and may actually have been in situ for years... :)

Actually about 60 degrees above the horizon, which makes it roughly eleven o'clock on the 6th of July.

Could be a week or so either side. I haven't put much care or attention into gauging the angles.

Google Streetview.

John MacBride. 7 May 1868 – 5 May 1916 "His red hair and long nose led to him being given the nickname "Foxy Jack"." Much more at - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_MacBride

Here is a titbit of information from 1903 via Trove ... "... When MacBrlde was in an engagement at Modderspruit in October, 1899, a shell burst above a rock behind which he was taking cover. Instinctively he put his hand up to his neck, and a splinter tore an agate from the bezil of his ring. He lost the stone, but the rest of it is now his wife's wedding-ring." See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128457863

This image and text, along with memorials to the other men executed, appear together in this poster published by Powell Press, of 22 Parliament Street (close to Dublin City Hall). Seemingly there were also postcard versions (which this one may have been). Also published by Powell Press. I haven't found anything more concrete to indicate when and who took the original.

Flickr is sometimes amazing - but alas no more clues to the provenance. Via cellleader

My mother had a great admiration for this man and there was a picture of him in the boys bedroom at home. I had this fellow looking down at me every morning when i woke up!

Streetview 2014: goo.gl/maps/jTnyNYFZXCQ2

Billboard for "The Irish Packet" . This magazine was first published by the Freeman's Journal in 1903 tThe Irish Packet "A popular penny weekly of 'fact, fun and fiction'. Ran a lot of short stories including work by Katharine Tynan, Justin McCarthy, William Boyle, Jane Barlow, J.D. Guinan, William Buckley. Issues & Index Sources: 1903 – 1909 Editors: M. M'D. Bodkin Formats: small tabloid Prices: 1d Frequency: weekly" Date range 1903-1909 puts it in conflict with the catalogues 1900 upper limit?

The "McGrath" shop sign still exists (but not the original one), s. www.buildingsofireland.ie/niah/search.jsp?type=record&...

O Mac Confirmed in irishmediahistory.com/tag/irish-packet/: "The Irish Packet was a story paper owned and run by the Freeman’s Journal newspaper. It began publication in October 1903 ..."

O Mac That 1880-1900 was probably an educated guesstimate, not to be taken as gospel in the case of the Lawrence Collection. And exactly why the investigations undertaken here are so useful to Library Towers and the national collection!