proclamation

The proclamation on the left dates from August 6th. There were more proclamations on the 14th and later each referring to the earlier ones.

Thanks Sharon Corbet. That stacks up with our own investigations on dates as well. For example, this transcription of an article dated 15 August 1914 from the "County Express" (for Worcestershire and Staffordshire) reads:

"Aliens restriction order in Council". Notices under the above heading, issued by order of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, have been posted this week in all public places announcing “That aliens of German nationality are required to register themselves forthwith. They should apply immediately to the nearest police station for instructions. Penalty (for not registering, etc,) a fine of £100 or imprisonment for six months.” In Amblecote and Worcester there are resident some 20 persons of Austrian nationality employed in the glass industry. In accordance with the notices the majority have already reported themselves to the local police stations for registration. In one case, one Austrian from this district left his country and it is stated that he has been captured in Holland.

That an attachment/addendum was added to one of the notices (that says "This notice now applies also to AUSTRIAN and to HUNGARIAN SUBJECTS"), would suggest the Clonbrock/Dillon photographer probably didn't capture this when the bills were first posted. But it was still probably relatively early in the war. As the bills were unusual enough to warrant capturing...

A copy of the greyer middle notice appears in the Nenagh Guardian on Saturday 15 August 1914. The full transcription reads as below. All very laudible sensible stuff really:

Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, Limited THE WAR AND FOOD SUPPLIES To the organised farmers of Ireland In this time of grave national peril our farmers will have to bear their full share of the privations which must be borne by all classes in the country. The I.A.O.S. has sent to every society in Ireland a supply of leaflets giving full instructions as to how supplies of human and animal food may best be increased and conserved. These leaflets may be had on application to the manager or secretary of your society. Briefly stated these recommendations are - 1. Not to sell any serviceable breeding stock especially milk cows, heifers, sows, ewes, &c. - 2. To sow immediately quick-growing crops on land from which potatoes and corn crops have been harvested, or upon lea land. These sowings will provide abundant winter fodder. - 3. Not to sell grain, hay or straw to speculators who will merely hold for a rise in price and so intensify distress in the country. - 4. To save from waste anything and everything that may be used as food by man or beast and to exercise the strictest economy in the household and on the farm. - 6. To sell all butter as fast as produced at current market prices, pasteurising all cream from which it is made so as to prevent deterioration in the event of delayed transit, and exercising the greatest care in giving credit to any but known customers. - 6. To hatch all fertile eggs, so as to maintain large stocks of poultry, selling and consuming only those which can be spared. - 7. Above all, to discountenance any attempt to raise prices beyond what is justified by the increased cost of production. The I.A.O.S. will, as far as possible, give instructions to affiliated societies in carrying out these recommendations. Our farmers have co-operated loyally with each other in times of peace ; they are now called upon to co-operate with the whole community while the war lasts in preserving all classes of our population from want. - HORACE PLUNKETT, President - T. A. FINLAY Vice-President - R. A. ANDERSON , Secretary Dublin, 8th August, 1914

The one above the Alien's Restriction Order is here. A proclamation on the Defence of the Realm from August 4th 1914. guliolopez Horace Plunkett's diary for 1914 is available at the NLI. (Original).

Issued By Order of the Lord Lieutenant from Dublin Castle on September 12, 1916, the change occurred just five months after the 1916 Easter Rising to streamline telegraph, railway, and military communications with London

We started 1916 on Dublin Standard Time, GMT-25 min. Then in May, Irish Summer Time, GMT+35.

Then GMT.

The 35-Minute Clock Adjustment

The reason the poster instructs the public to put their clocks back by exactly 35 minutes (more precisely, 34 minutes and 39 seconds) instead of a clean 25 minutes comes down to a scheduling coincidence with the end of British Summer Time:
1. In May 1916, the United Kingdom introduced its first-ever Daylight Saving Time ("Summer Time") to ration fuel during World War I. Ireland was forced to move its clocks forward by 1 hour as well, maintaining its 25-minute offset behind London.
2. When the UK prepared to wind its clocks back by 60 minutes to return to winter time on October 1, 1916, authorities decided to permanently assimilate Irish time with British time.
3. To seamlessly erase the 25-minute gap while simultaneously applying the 60-minute winter rollback, Irish clocks only needed to be turned back by 35 minutes (60 minutes - 25 minutes = 35 minutes).

Political Impact

The timing of the law caused significant political friction. Coming just five months after the 1916 Easter Rising, many Irish nationalists viewed the forced synchronization as an act of cultural assimilation and a direct attack on Irish national identity. Prominent republican figures, including Countess Markievicz, openly criticized the abolition of Dublin Mean Time. Despite the historical controversy, the unified time structure was kept intact by the Irish Free State after independence for the sake of synchronized cross-border trade, rail transit, and telegraph communication.

"One Cork Councillor argued in 1916 that changing Ireland's time zone would impact the feeding time of cows “with very disadvantageous results.” ...
... " The change was not well accepted. Countess Constance Markiewicz wrote to a Republican lawyer in England claiming that the Irish people were enraged that English time was being forced upon them. She said that the change, on top of many other things the English had done since the Rising earlier that year, would encourage the Irish people to support Sinn Féin. ... ..."

From - www.irishcentral.com

Given the dates, I'd guess that the proclamation they're reading might be the death of Edward VII in 1910. That wall looks like the brick wall that surrounds Buckingham Palace. Mind you, he died in May and those trees are definitely winter trees! Could it possibly be the death of Queen Victoria, she died in January.

I'm thinking war dead

War dead would be announced in newspapers: the Palace has a tradition of posting birth/death announcements on the gates and walls.

Hi, I think this is Marlborough Road and the wall forms part of the entrance to Marlborough House. The blind window openings on the building behind the wall indicate that it is the Guards Club, the openings were made that way because the building overlooked the grounds of Marlborough House. See below. I think that the Proclamation refers to the accession of King Edward VII. The proclamation is always written in the same terms, the list which appears on the second sheet are those who have signed the Proclamation, they include the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Privy Councillors and The Lord Mayor of London and other City representatives. Here is the proclamation of King Edward VII. "Whitehall, January 23, 1901. On Tuesday afternoon, the twenty-second of January instant, at half-past six o'clock, our late most gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria expired at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, in the eighty-second year of Her age, and the sixty-fourth year of Her reign. This event has caused one universal feeling of regret and sorrow to Her late Majesty's faithful and attached subjects, to whom She was endeared by the deep interest in their welfare which She invariably manifested, as well as by the signal virtues which marked and adorned Her character. Upon the intimation of this distressing event, the Lords of the Privy Council assembled this day at St. James's Palace, and gave orders for proclaiming His present Majesty, who made a most gracious declaration to them, and caused all the Lords and others of the late Queen's Privy Council, who were then present, to be sworn of His Majesty's Privy Council. Whereas it hath pleased Almighty God to call to His mercy our late Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, of Blessed and Glorious Memory, by whose Decease the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is solely and rightfully come to the High and Mighty Prince Albert Edward : We, therefore, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal of this Realm, being here assisted with these of her late Majesty's Privy Council, with numbers of other principal gentlemen of quality, with the Lord-Mayor, Aldermen, and citizens of London, do now hereby, with one voice and consent of tongue and heart, publish and proclaim, That the High and Mighty Prince Albert Edward, is now, by the death of our late Sovereign, of happy memory, become our only lawful and rightful Liege Lord Edward the Seventh, by the Grace of God, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India: To whom we do acknowledge all faith and constant obedience, with all hearty and humble affection, beseeching God, by whom Kings and Queens do reign, to bless the Royal Prince Edward the Seventh, with long and happy years to reign over us. Given at the Court at St. James's, the twenty-third day of January, in this year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one".