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👀 Yikes! We've been indented!

I can see now why the carpet in Pooles studio looks so treadbare at times. This photo also tells us that his studio was on the ground floor. Busoni might have been the name of the horse?

No Carpet Required with apologies to Phil Collins

W. J Baird was ADC to Lord Wimbourne, the Lord Lieutenant from 1915 to 1917. This not yet digitised photo is also dated approx. 1917.

?? William James Baird 1893 - 1961 on The Peerage - www.thepeerage.com/p5730.htm#i57295 "William James Baird was born on 8 November 1893. He was the son of William Baird and Caroline Muriel Burn-Callander. He married Audley Josephine Helen Porter, daughter of John Porter Porter and Josephine Henrietta Lloyd, on 28 May 1918.1 He and Audley Josephine Helen Porter were divorced in 1936.1 He died on 2 February 1961 at age 67. He lived at Elie, Fife, Scotland. ... "

He seems to have been an interesting fellow - there's some information on him starting from page 15 of article on Fenian treason trials. He was an Irish-American who fought for the Confederacy during the US Civil War. While he was sentenced to death in 1867 for the Chester Castle raid, it seems his execution was commuted, and TCD has a photo of him from 1890/1.

There's more information on the Chester Castle incident in this post about one of the co-conspirators John Flood.

Captain John McCafferty was the Confederate soldier who coined the phrase - "The gun is mightier than the sword". According to - www.rareirishstuff.com/irish-historical-memorabilia-/feni...

Fleas. Another VERY FAMOUS Irish fellow sided with the Confederacy, John Mitchel, while Thomas Meagher sided with the Union. Everything you want to know- www.google.com.au/search?source=hp&ei=aFb0XvTsIc66rQG...

Via Trove, this anecdote about a Fenian plot to kidnap King Edward VII when he was Prince of Wales - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/167021852?searchTerm=C... - including "... He is described as a thorough type of a guerilla leader, with a well-proportioned and strongly-knit frame, and handsome, resolute-looking, . bronzed face. ... " Edit - John Denvir's book "The Life Story of an Old Rebel" is available online - www.gutenberg.org/files/16559/16559-h/16559-h.htm The original quote (Chapter VI) - "He was a thorough type of a guerilla leader. With his well-proportioned and strongly-knit frame, and handsome resolute-looking bronzed face, you could imagine him just the man for any dashing and daring enterprise." So NLI Mary's blurb carefully phrased introduction above is accurate! ... "The mission he was engaged on was one that can only be described by the word amazing. So daring was it, so hedged around with apparent impossibilities, that to the ordinary man its very conception would be incredible. But McCafferty was perfectly serious and determined about it, and to him it seemed practicable enough, provided only he could get a few more men like himself: and indeed if the collection of just such a company of conspirators were practicable, no doubt the impossible might become possible enough. But the hypothesis is fatal, for the McCafferty strain is a rare one indeed, so that his project never got further than an idea. I think, however, that I cannot be accused of exaggeration in saying that if he had been successful in carrying out his idea, his achievement would have formed the most extraordinary chapter in English history—for it was no less than the abduction of the then Prince of Wales, afterwards King Edward VII., and the holding of him as a hostage for a purpose of the Fenian organisation. The plan was to take him to sea in a sailing vessel, and to keep him there, until the Fenian prisoners still at that time unreleased were set at liberty. He was to be treated with the utmost consideration and—the recollection is not without its humorous side—McCafferty had a memorandum to spare no pains in finding what were the favourite amusements of the Prince, so that he might have a "real good time" on board."

Nearby googlysphere with some lighting effects.

Date wise, the gable is labelled 1898.

Niall McAuley After 1898, thank you.

The NIAH says it was extended in 1906 and 1912, may narrow it down

Mr Bowler-Hat moved benches for this one - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321228

A an article about the New Aviary in Evening Herald (Dublin) - Saturday 29 June 1907:

Dr. R. F. Scarf. hon. sec., stated that he had transferred to the New Aviary on the far aide of the lake a number birds he had recently acquired. which had been in a cage under the Haughton House. while, some alterations were taking place in the Aviary.

That reads to me that the cages under Haughton House were temporary. Possibly. Or possibly not.

Edit: NOT.