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I haven't seen this photo before. Extremely interesting.

Great photo of General Mulcahy, a very interesting man. This is another photo of him.

good shot!

His son, also called Risteard, wrote an excellent biography of his Dad and his life and times called "My Father The General".

Another very good book about him is "Portrait of a Revolutionary: General Richard Mulcahy and the Founding of the Irish Free State" by Maryann Gialanella Valiulis.

Streetview

I see tramtracks, this line was electrified by 28 August 1899, but I can't tell if we should see the overhead wires or not.

Gas lights: The opening of the Pigeon House generating station in 1903 extended electric lighting to almost all major streets in the city centre including Rathmines. With the introduction of their electric lighting scheme in 1903, the Rathmines Urban District Council erected a selection of lamp standards to suit the lighting requirements of the street in question.

Maybe they are pupils of the Jewish school that was around the corner on Broomfield Avenue.

I'm having deja vu all over again - see the later street lamps -

amazing history view! I wonder what those "trucks" doing there in the water?

A similar hut is featured in another shot from the collection: www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3438462238/ I live not far from here now. Incredible.

maybe they were changing rooms or shower rooms of that sort.

See www.victorianweb.org for "bathing wagons," or www.metropostcard.com for "bathing machines." Used for changing clothes and entering the water with utmost modesty.