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Guns and Poses

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 21 older comments, and then…
• Mukesh Patel said:

  Beautiful

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Based on the almost legible sign in this picture, the fancy one on the left was Indian, and I think presented either to or by Field Marshal Lord Gough.
  
  Also, I can only see 3 pieces of artillery...

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Apparently, there were 4 guns presented to Lord Gough by the East Indian Company, and his son lent/gave 2 of them (howitzers) to the Museum. They're now at McKee Barracks, outside the officers' mess.

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Leaving aside the cannons, his was taken in the Rotunda of what's now the NMI - Archaeology, on Kildare Stret. The zodiac mosaic is still there, even if the statues and artillery have been replaced by the Museum Shop.
  
  It's from after around 1890 or later as the museum opened it's doors on 29th August of that year.

• O Mac said:

  Here's -- what looks like-- the one on the right