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Armoured car on Henry Street, Dublin

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • derangedlemur said:
    National Army armoured car at Henry Street
    near Nelson’s Pillar during the Battle of Dublin
    in late June/early July 1922.
    Attached to the car is an effigy of anti-Treaty IRA leader
    Rory O’Connor, reading derisively ‘Rory Boy’. The British
    army gave thirteen of these rolls royce armoured cars to
    the Provisional Government in early 1922. Impervious
    to small-arms fire, they carried a Vickers machine gun
    in a rotating turret. Soldiers named them after songs,
    patriotic heroes or separatist victories. In the case of this
    armoured car, the name ‘Customs House’ celebrates the
    burning of that structure by the IRA’s Dublin Brigade in
    May 1921, an operation many National Army officers
    had participated in.

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  • derangedlemur said:
    The ARR known as the The Customs House, named due to the IRA attack on the building during the War of Independence. The figure on top has a noose around its neck and bears a placard entitled “Rory Boy” after Rory O’Connor, an Irregular leader captured during the first few weeks fighting

    Certainly, the Irregulars had nothing to match them. Crewed by three soldiers, with a top speed of 45mph and armed with a .303 Vickers machine gun on a rotating turret, the ARR’s played a vital part in the opening stages of the war, whether it was supporting infantry, providing generals with mobile-command centres, or spearheading frontal assaults.

    These ARR’s included such notable examples as The Customs House (pictured above), from which General Seamus Hogan led the Dublin Guards on their assault on the village of Bruree during the Battle of Killmallock, or the Ex-Mutineer, captured from the Irregulars during the first week of fighting and which subsequently spearheaded the seaborne landings on the Irregular stronghold of Kerry.

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  • derangedlemur said:
    The internet's full of this stuff - looks like it's a famous enough photo.
  • derangedlemur said:
    Seems to have been replaced with an Opel now: www.google.ie/maps/@53.3497326,-6.2607722,2a,75y,76.57h,9...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Patrick J. "Specky" Griffin on the right, according to www.customhousecommemoration.com/2018/03/18/who-was-speck...

The Big Fella and The Fighting 2nd

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • José Miguel LLop Sanchez said:
    Great capture
  • FrigateRN said:
    This lot look a tough bunch do they not? Can you give us any more detail about this interesting picture please?
  • Andy said:
    Formidable machines...great photo.Thanks so much!
  • FrigateRN said:
    I meant the men as the tough looking bunch, I just feel that there may be more to this picture that can be said.
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    FrigateRN No more detail to hand, I'm afraid, which is one of the reasons I've uploaded it here! Hoping to learn more about both men and machines...