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I don't think they were there to protect him, more likely to harass, as this must be the radical campaigner for tenants rights. Very anti landlord, anti police.

I have found a ref to Dr H., active during the Land Wars. I found the Limerick Leader article in 1955 which shows a facsimile of this photo and refs it to the United Ireland magazine of 1890.

52 N24 maps.app.goo.gl/HenaNmzxtewx468E6

oh typo ... he is Father Humphreys, not Dr as I mistyped above

Foxglove There's a scan of that article here.

Here is Sgt. Ruttle's family in the 1911 census. There's a note on the actual form explaining that the Head of Family was captured in the Barracks return form, meaning that the M.R. here is probably Sgt. Ruttle.

Michael Ruttle, his wife Olivia and their two daughters, Ouida and Olivia (Walker) Ruttle are all buried in Dungar, Co Tipperary.

26 August 1907 was a Monday. I like W[illia]m E.'s toy boat. Wonder what happened to him?

Sharon Corbet Michael lived to 83, his wife to 85, and Ouida, the older girl here, lived to 86. Olivia Annie (with the racket) lived to 96!

up The Déise

The Igoe Gang, successor to the Cairo Gang “Eventually, another group of intelligence operatives, known officially as the Identification Branch of the Combined Intelligence Service (CIS), took the fight to the IRA. The group was known informally as The Igoe Gang, named after its leader Head Constable Eugene Igoe, who was from County Mayo. Igoe reported to Colonel Ormonde Winter. The Igoe Gang consisted of RIC personnel drawn from different parts of Ireland who patrolled the streets of Dublin in plain clothes, looking for wanted men. The Igoe Gang posed a serious threat to Collins's apparatus and even caught a Volunteer whom Collins had brought to Dublin to identify Igoe. The Igoe gang has been accused of using excessive force while interrogating prisoners – prior to his hanging, IRA man Thomas Traynor (a member of The Forgotten Ten) was badly beaten by members of the gang. The Gang was never penetrated by the IRA. Igoe later conducted secret service operations for Special Branch over many years in other countries, but never returned to his farm in Mayo out of fear of reprisal. Brigadier General Winter appeared on Igoe's behalf to obtain an increase in his pension in view of his many services to the Crown in Ireland and elsewhere.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Gang

Head Constable Eugene Igoe appears in the Marked Men section of this online exhibition: From Turmoil to Truce, photographs of the War of Independence

www.anphoblacht.com/contents/27960

Carol Maddock That is very interesting Carol, looks like something to browse through on a wet and windy day! If only we had a wet and windy day like today?????

via LOC Igoe’s boss, Sir Ormonde de l'Épée Winter