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“The Royal Irish Regiment with the Irish Republic flag at the Parnell Monument, O’Connell Street (NMI Collection)
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Irish Republic flag flying on the GPO, photograph taken from a Metropole Hotel window (NMI Collection)
Probably the most famous flag of the 1916 Rising is the Irish Republic flag, with its white and orange lettering on a green field background. It was flown from the roof of the GPO on the Princes Street corner, while the tricolour flew from the Henry Street side. The flag survived the destruction of O’Connell Street, and was taken as a war souvenir by the Royal Irish Regiment. It ended up in the collection of King George of England, and was stored in the Imperial War Museum until 1966 when it was presented from the British to the Irish governments for the 50th Anniversary of the Rising. It is now in the care of the National Museum of Ireland”

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“On the far right is Lt. Dick Burke MC, a Kerryman from Dingle, Royal Irish Regiment. After the Rising, he fought at Wijtschate, 1917. Three battalions of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers fought to put down the Rising”

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suckindeesel Thank you. So officers of the Royal Irish Regiment. Wonder if we can find names for more of them?

[aside] I was surprised after all the photos around 1916, and after all the years of photos, that I hadn't come across this image before.

Off topic, but I put it to you, M'Lud, that the top of O'Connell Street is at the bridge, and the Parnell Monument end is the bottom...

Carol Maddock I'm afraid you are only about 40% right!
I think for a Northsider the top is at the bridge, whereas for a Southsider (I believe you are one?) the top is at the Ambassador.

Good view of the former Nelson's Pillar.

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The Parnell monument was unveiled in July 1911, it looks nearly finished here.

The wagon with ads for a cinema/theatre on Gt. Brunswick St. is presumably for the Queen's Theatre on what is now Pearse St,, later temporary home of the Abbey. The Palace, later the Academy, was not a cinema until the 1920s. ’In England there is a growing demand for cinematograph entertainments’, announced Dublin’s Evening Mail in February 1908. ‘Every important town has its permanent “picture show”, and the Colonial Picture Combine see no reason why Ireland should not be adequately represented in this respect.’ The occasion of this statement was the opening of what was soon being advertised as the People’s Popular Picture Palace at the former Queen’s Theatre in Dublin’s Brunswick Street (now Pearse Street).

Sign "CRANE" on the right, from the Lennon-Wylie page, the 1913 phone directory: Dublin 1574 Crane & Sons Ltd., Musical Instrument Manufacturers 40 Upper Sackville Street

discussion in the dail about who was to blame....http://debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/1926/03/23/00021.asp#N2

Moira Thanks, very interesting! I'm reposting the link, as yours was a little wonky (technical term!) debates.oireachtas.ie/dail/1926/03/23/00021.asp