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Like a publicity shot for a tobacco company. Look forward to their identity being revealed.

If you scroll down through this page www.rollofhonourirl.com/more-photos.php you will see a Volunteer named William O'Shaughnessy, executed in Ennis, and he bears a strong resemblance to the man on second from the left, back row.

I would suspect these are Civil War hunger-strikers (~Oct 1923) rather than War of Independence hunger-strikers (~1920). I base this mainly on the attire, the demeanor, and the fact that the image was taken at all (less likely a "behind walls" propaganda photo like this would've been tolerated during the Tan War). Somewhat oxymoronically I suspect it's the Civil War precisely because we do not know who these men were. I suggest the latter because, while hunger strikes were not uncommon during the independence movement (~1916-~1920), most undertaken in that period often involved higher-profile names. Like Ashe (1917) or MacSwiney (1920). That we do not know these men in itself suggests to me that we are post civil war here. When many thousands protested their continued post-war detention via hunger strike. (>460 men participated in Mountjoy, >70 in Cork jail, >3000 in the Curragh camps, >1700 in Newbridge, etc. Cumann na mBan members also participated. In a near two-month period Oct-Nov 1923). An article from the 1930s described it as the "biggest hunger strike in history", and several men died, including Denis Barry and Andrew Sullivan. Both in late November 1923. No concessions were forthcoming however, and the anti-treaty leadership called a halt to the 1923 strike after a little more than 40 days. (While it wouldn't do to trivialise these things, this summary includes a quote attributed to one prisoner: "“Be cripes” [...] We bate Christ by a day!"). If this is the 1923 strike, then I doubt the image is from the Curragh/Tintown. I would guess it's Mountjoy. The NLI catalogue has a (partial?) list of names from Dublin who participated. Many interned in Mountjoy.

guliolopez The background does look a bit like a photo I found yesterday of a different set of hunger strikers from October 1919. It was also taken by Keogh. So I'd agree that it is probably Mountjoy, but it still may be an earlier hunger strike.

"A sign erected by Lord Lucan outside the Gaol read: ‘Without Beware, Within Amend’ " [edited] Lots of vivid information here - www.con-telegraph.ie/2020/05/23/an-insight-into-old-castl...

Mr Wynne provides a wider view "ca. 1880" - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000227385

beachcomber australia The history of the Lucan clan is interesting.

beachcomber australia Interesting that Wynne uses Prison, Lawrence Jail and the link you posted Gaol!

According to the 25" is was gone already by the early 20th century (or lese it was a secret). It's got a bit of Mayo General hospital in it now. I spent nine hours there last summer waiting to get half a dozen stitches in my leg.

Designed by John McCurdy, who also did this one:

What are the round things? [ed.] They were not evident in 1953 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046717 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046627 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000046720

beachcomber australia Might they be heating vents? Ian Fleming wrote in 'Live and Let Die' of New York having a piped heating system with regular vents or gratings in the road.

I have a photo just like this too following my 2016 Dublin trip. I think the jail was also used as a set to film "in the name of the father"

Would the piles of "clothes" be more likely blankets?