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“Abstract
While the participation of Irishmen in the Great War has prompted much scholarship, the
commemoration of their involvement – and in particular how Irish journalism reported and
interpreted such commemorations – has been less examined. This article argues that the
journalism surrounding the annual Armistice Day commemoration was a central factor in the
battle for power in independent Ireland. It finds that the annual commemoration played a
major part in the identity politics of the Irish Free State and that this was greatly intensified
by journalistic argument about the motives of those who had fought in the Great War, what
that war meant in relation to the freedom of small nations, and how best to commemorate
those who had died. It also finds that while such journalistic argument helped engender an
air of stigma about Irish involvement in the Great War, later journalistic arguments played a
key role in removing that stigma”

doras.dcu.ie/24043/1/Whose War Was It Anyway.pdf

doras.dcu.ie/24043/1/Whose%20War%20Was%20It%20Anyway.pdf

Armistice anniversaries 1926

youtu.be/Q7NaTcxTiAU?si=q80g8fPzcPfVnMyM

Funny/peculiar 'a's and 'e's in that script ...

The lads in the back of the truck seem to be enjoying themselves all the same.

Try as I might, I've found no press reports of Sinn Fein MPs being arrested on Armistice Day 1926.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Potter

NYT of December 28, 1921 query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9B03E6D6113EEE3AB... reports that the tomb had been dedicated.

Henry Codman Potter I (May 25, 1835 – July 21, 1908) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States. He was the seventh Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_C._Potter

Streetview

That's the Loop line Bridge.

Trove has a possible hit: RIOT IN DUBLIN. Police Inspector Killed., LONDON, June 11. A riot occurred, in Dublin on Sunday in connection with a meeting to protest against the treatment of Irish political offenders. Inspector Mills, of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, was killed during the disturbance. Count Plunkett, M.P., and four other persons were arrested.

It was the evening of Sunday 10 June 1917, according to the Sydney Morning Herald of 12/6/17 p.7 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15714554

A later message states:- An attempt to hold a prohibited meeting in Dublin on Sunday evening culminated in a riot. When Count Plunkett and a man named Brugha drove up in a motor near Liberty Hall, about 1000 surged round the car. Brugha called out "The British Government will not allow us freedom of speech." A police-man pulled him from the car. Plunkett tried to stop the mob from shouting, he also was arrested. Meanwhile, the police dispersed the greater part of the mob. Inspector Mills was escorting the prisoners when someone felled him with a stick. He died later.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Noble_Plunkett

Niall McAuley Snap! -ish!