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Flickr is sometimes amazing! From 2016 via Diego Sideburns who says,
"Patrick Byrne Monument
In the grounds of the Church of St Anthony of Egypt, Scotland Road, Liverpool is the monument to Irishman "Dandy" Patrick Byrne who went to Liverpool as a 17 year old emigrant from Wexford and became a successful businessman and a Liverpool Councillor. He died in 1890 and a monument acknowledging his generosity to the Irish people in the Scotland Road area was erected in Scotland Place outside of the Morning Star Pub which Patrick Byrne owned. The original monument was removed from Scotland Place when work began on the second Mersey tunnel in the late 1960s. The monument was moved to another location and from there subsequently finished up in a Liverpool Corporation Yard. The whereabouts of the monument became known in 1998 and efforts to restore as much of the remaining parts of the monument succeeded in having it sited in the grounds of St Anthony's Church."

More via Diego Sideburns

beachcomber australia So we're not in Warrington at all, as we thought, but in Liverpool proper then? Must have been the "Warrington's Ales" that led the Krazy Kataloguer astray.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Seems so.

"The Morning Star was situated at 24-28 Scotland Place. This pub has now been demolished."
www.closedpubs.co.uk/lancashire/liverpool_l3_morningstar....

"Possibly the best known pub, and one I have mentioned before in this blog, was the Morning Star at 24 Scotland Place. It was better known as Dandy Pat’s on account of its charismatic landlord Pat Byrne, also a Liverpool councillor. It was positioned at the city end of the Scottie where it became Byrom Street, most of which was demolished to make way for the second Mersey Tunnel road scheme. There is a great photo of the Morning Star with its front ‘arched’ windows, and Walker’s Warrington Ales sign on the left. In the centre is the Birmingham Arms ( a Threlfalls pub renowned for their blue and white livery, at 14 Scotland Place) next to the ’98 Shop’. In the centre next to the tramlines is the ‘Dandy Pat Memorial Fountain’ which, after a previous relocation, survives today in the grounds of St.Anthony’s church further along Scotland Road. ..."

From - cadhain.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/the-pubs-of-scottie-road/

www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100549202 same name buried in Canada 1982 (90) years. Birth: 1892 Death: 1982 Family links: Spouse: May Butler Gore-Hickman (1895 - 1976)* *Calculated relationship Burial: Mountain View Cemetery Lethbridge Lethbridge Census Division Alberta, Canada Created by: Bear Hugs Record added: Nov 11, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 100549202

Lieutenant Thomas O'Brien GORE-HICKMAN The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Date: 1914-1919; 1936. From discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details/C10981...

From "Raids and Rallies" (Ernie O'Malley):

(1921) "Dr Finegan was referring to five officers of the Leitrim brigade - a portion or a column under Seán Connolly from the Longford Brigade - who had been killed by the British on 11 March at Selton Hill, County Leitrim after information of their presence had been given to Thomas Gore-Hickman, the District Inspector of the RIC in Mohill

From: "Rising out: Seán Connolly of Longford (1890-1921)" (Ernie O'Malley, Cormac K. H. O'Malley)

the lorry was the oridinary passing lorry of troops, he went up towards it for it had halted outside of McCullough's gate. A police officer, Thomas Gore-Hickman, the RIC District Inspector in Mohill, got out of a car which was behind the soldiers and walked over to Flynn: 'Did you see any armed men around here', he asked? 'No, I didn't, I was at school all day'...

Here is young Thomas at home in Clare in 1901's census You can see that his Uncle Thomas is an O'Brien. In the Landed Estates Database, we have the Hickman family of Kilmore House, and a Gore connection: Francis William Gore of Tyredagh assumed the surname of Hickman in 1878. Why? Because: In 1824, Mary Browne, daughter of Edmond and Anne Browne, married Francis Gore and their descendants eventually inherited the Hickman estate by the will of Anne’s brother, Poole Hickman, who died in 1842. He was succeeded by his sister, Letitia Hickman, who held an estate comprised of at least nine townlands in the parishes of Killimer and Kilmurry at the time of Griffith’s Valuation. So Francis Gore married into the Hickman family, and when Francis inherited the Hickman lands, he assumed the name Hickman (a condition of the will, maybe?), and gave just that name in the census of 1901 and 1911 . Thomas evidently felt he should restore the Gore name, as well as double-barrelling with his mothers surname [Edit:]Francis's father was named Francis Gore too, so I'm not sure which of them inherited/changed his name...

Hickman’s eldest son Thomas had joined the Auxialiaries and gained a notorious reputation in the Longford / Roscommon area. In response to the burning of the family homes and businesses of known I.R.A. members by the R.I.C., the I.R.A. had begun arson attacks on the family homes of men who had joined the Black & Tans and the Auxiliaries in both Britain and Ireland. District Inspector Thomas Hickman a member of the R.I.C. Auxiliary Division There are a number of possible motives why Kilmore was burnt; Hickman’s unpopularity, jealousy of Behan as cited by the R.I.C., the use of the house by the British Army, or his son’s membership of the Auxiliaries. On 5 July 1921, Hazelwood House in Quin, another property belonging to Hickman, was burned down by the I.R.A. Hazelwood and its contents were valued at one hundred thousand pounds. Your picture is posted here about half way down. www.warofindependence.info/?page_id=225

Could she be Bridget Josephine "Bridie" O'Mullane? See - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridie_O%27Mullane

This page on Bridie O'Mullane has a portrait (IMO not the same woman) - similar smoky/dreamy framing. Bridie's uniform is a much heavier material and more military look - altogether more professional than todays. Todays uniform is more feminine and perhaps home made? An earlier date maybe?

also, this woman does not have curls to her hair,

I agree with Niall McAuley and Foxglove. This is not Bridie Mullane, I don't believe.

This paper from Maynooth is interesting on badges and uniforms, but not actually useful for dating this shot, as the badge is too blurred.