postcard

A rough translation of the typing at the bottom of the card would be "A party giving a welcome to the Chief Allenby who is giving medals to a small group of French Officers"!

a regiment salutes General Allenby, an Englishman, who has just decorated some French officers, a card from the First World War
www.curyleiloes.com.br/peca.asp?ID=11384674&ctd=54&am...

Google Translate says,
"Groups welcoming the Saxon Taoiseach Allenby, who has presented medals to a small group of French officials"

Saxon ?!

Allenby -

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Allenby,_1st_Viscount_Allenby

More information here in French; translation to follow. It is a street in Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise in March 1916. Decorations for French airmen ...
www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/sites/default/files/2022-04/...

From - www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/saint-pol-sur-ternoise

Translation of the French caption on the site above -

"Parade of the 108th territorial infantry regiment in the streets of Saint-Pol - March 1916.
These troops paraded on the occasion of the presentation of decorations to the pilots, Captain Turin and Corporal Daguesan by General Allenby and the commander of the 3rd British army"

Edit - easier to see and read here (scroll through) - www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/en/saint-pol-sur-ternoise

It's a pity the time flys so quickly. You ought to pluck yourself up and come next year. How I would love to have you and all my friends in 239. Love to you all M. Pearse

Here we are your two daughters doing the (faln?) with our (?) President too much for me to ride the (?)

With love to yourself and the girls

The card was originally monochrome but has been poorly colourised.

There is another photo from the same series, from further away -
www.historicalpicturearchive.com/shop/pictures/arbutus-co...

... which makes me think this is the building, with later additions. Door, window positions, and chimneys match, if you disregard the extension on the right - maps.app.goo.gl/jLZLmLtt9j99izTMA

Ed. And the rock face close behind.

Ed.2 And the corrugated iron roof.

OR ...

Is it this different cottage ? ...
www.geograph.ie/photo/781429
www.geograph.ie/photo/2501113

Ruin view - maps.app.goo.gl/pZ4Tj1NSzHhs2Cb88

"History of Arbutus Cottage (Gap of Dunloe)

19th-Century Furniture Hub: Built in the 1880s, the cottage originally served as the workshop for master cabinet maker James French. French specialized in "Killarney work"—intricate woodwork and furniture carved and inlaid with native arbutus and bog oak timber found in the Killarney National Park.

Royal Seal of Approval: The cottage's workshop was so renowned that in April 1885, the Prince and Princess of Wales (later King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra) visited the property to view the famous inlaying and carving industry firsthand."

Tempted to pen a limerick ...

Flickr is sometimes un-signed! Via painting in light, who says,
"A Beagles postcard featuring a 1882 photograph by Chancellor of Dublin of tenor Barton McGuckin in the role of 'Wilhelm Meister' in the opera Mignon by Ambroise Thomas. ..."

How he sounded -
🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OrWeFmNRfs 🎶

Bio

www.carlrosatrust.org.uk/troupe/troupe_McGuckin.html

Via Trove, an interview in South Australia from 1897 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166436174?searchTerm=%...

"Such heat I have never before experienced," he said, adding merrily, " except in a Turkish bath. The other members of the company, with the exception of our accompanist, are all Australians, and consequently do not feel it. As for myself, the present weather is almost unbearable ; with the wind like a puff from a furnace, and the dust it means the ruination of a man's voice."