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Civic Guards Wexford, group

  • 20 older comments, and then…
  • beachcomber australia said:
    7 June 1924 was a Saturday. No moustaches! Is this because of Civic Guards regulations, or fashion in 1924?
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Two weeks later in Kilkenny -
  • beachcomber australia said:
    And in 1923 (previous year) in Waterford -
  • Rory Sherlock said:
    The sergeant seated to the right of the officer (from our viewpoint) and the Garda standing immediately behind the officers are wearing a shield-shaped pins on their uniforms - probably indicative of their membership of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association. Permission was given to PTTA members to wear their Pioneer Pin on their uniforms (according to message #8 in this link: irishconstabulary.com/the-civic-guard-t1554.html)
  • Niall McAuley said:
    This building on the corner Lower George's Street and Abbey Street was an RIC barracks when the GeoHive 25" map was surveyed...

Wedding of Jack Heaslip and Eilish Long: commissioned by Mr. John Heaslip, c/o Miss Nellie Long, Ballyhale, Co.Kilkenny

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    Three priests - is that usual ?
  • derangedlemur said:
    beachcomber australia Rectors and curates, more likely. Heaslips generally are COI. There was a Jack Heaslip who was the curate in Malahide for a while, but he'd have been a generation later than this. Coincidentally, he was followed by a Mr Long (I can't remember his christian name). Edit: Kingsley Long - that was his name.
  • beachcomber australia said:
    There is also a studio shot of the central four, if that is any help - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000595315
  • derangedlemur said:
    Mind you, in 1911, all the Kilkenny Longs and the only two Kilkenny Heaslips were RC, so maybe they're priests after all.
  • John Spooner said:
    Narrowing the date very slightly, familysearch.org shows Jack John Heaslip marrying Eilis Long in the 4th quarter of 1952 in Thomastown registration district.

And the winner is...

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  • Niall McAuley said:
    GAEL LINN something MAR something CORN DO CHOMÓRTAS NÁISIÚNTA LIATHRÓID LÁIMHE
  • Niall McAuley said:
    There is still a GAA handball club in Falcarragh
  • Carol Maddock said:
    I think this gentleman might be Dick Lyng from Ballyanne in Wexford. More as we get it...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    Dick Lyng in the RTÉ archive, and again.
  • Carol Maddock said:
    Yep, it is. This photo appears in the Donegal News of Saturday, 17 April 1971. The caption says...
    Mr. Richie Lyng from New Ross, Co. Wexford, who won the Gael-Linn sponsored All-Ireland handball championship at Falcarragh on Easter Sunday.
    Strutting around here at Library Towers as that's people, well person, identified, and date established – Sunday, 11 April 1971.