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This is a panel used in the assembly of the Space Shuttle payload bay doors.

With those shirt-collars, let's go with a period of 1925-1935.

Other pictures, catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000594345, around 1930.

Rockwell College on the 25" map.

In 1911, the census lists staff as Teacher or Clergyman Professor, it does not state which of them taught Music.

Re Father Egan who commissioned the photo..... Fr Andrew Egan is the only Fr. Egan who fits the bill listed in "IRISH SPIRITANS REMEMBERED" page 126. www.spiritan.ie/oldSite/irish_spiritans_remembered.pdf "Having completed his Theology at the Castle, Blackrock, in 1928, Fr Andy was appointed to Rockwell where, apart from teaching Irish, he was Dean of Discipline. In 1934 he was transferred to Blackrock where with Joseph Corless, then prefect, he initiated the college tradition in the production of Gilbert and Sullivan operas." Interesting to note another photo from Rockwell showing group from opera HMS Pinafore. ?? catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000594771 Suggest taken 1928-34

If I had to guess, this might have been taken at one of the Colleges run by the 'Mill Hill Missionaries' who have St Joseph as their patron - either St Joseph's College, Freshford, Co. Kilkenny (Uppercourt Manor) or St Joseph's College, Dartry House, Rathgar. A look at the 1932 'Catholic Directory' should confirm whether Fr McCarthy was superior at one or other of those colleges at the time.

Hi Bernard Healy, most probably Kilkenny, Mr Poole rarely travelled to Dublin from his base in Waterford. As you can see we have it mapped as Cashel, Co Tipperary...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons I think I have it! Freshford wasn't opened until September 1932. These must be students of St Joseph's Missionary House, Rockwell, Cashel - better known as Rockwell College. The president of the College was the Holy Ghost priest Fr John J McCarthy. Here is his obituary. He died in 1947. He is just about recognizable in this newspaper photo, just to the left of the hat-stand.

Amazing - thanks Bernard Healy. Have added a short note to the description! Excellent work.