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So what happens next Carol? Another 12 months of photos? It has been very enjoyable, and although I didn't come on board until fairly late into the project it has been a pleasure to help with! Three cheers for Carol!

Hear Hear

Hear hear

Really enjoyed seeing your postings---hope it doesn't stop there! It wouldn't have to match the date; but surely when details are volunteered it greatly adds to the history of the image and where it was taken - for posterity!!

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/resel/] Colin [http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellster//] Wendy: Strongly Agree. By the way quite a few of the men appear in both photos. Perhaps Brylcreem should be added as a tag!

Something interesting is happening out of frame on the right.

I was going to suggest that it was during the hunger strike by Terence McSwiney but that was in 1920. There were other hunger strikes but of course you had Barrett, O'Connor, McKelvey and Mellowes executed in November 1922? Could it have been a vigil for them? It looks not unlike Government buildings today but why do you think that it is not London???

Swordscookie Is it very unscientific and unprofessional to say "just a feeling"??

I'd like to suggest that this was in fact taken on Prince's Street North, in Dublin.......(that's the one that goes down by the side of the GPO on the way into what is now the entrance to Arnott's multi-storey car park). The pillars look the same but there aren't as many of them nowadays, perhaps a by-product of the extensive damage caused to the building?

I'm in two minds. The heavy showing of patriotic symbols (flags in hand, harp pins on lapels, etc) make me think this is in the UK somewhere. I know this sounds a bit backwards, but I don't think that a crowd in Ireland would've felt the need to wear their colours quite so loudly. On the other-hand, if this was taken during the Civil War, then it's probably a vigil for Anti-treaty hungerstrikers. Possibly outside a prison. Maybe Mountjoy if it's for one/other of the MacSwiney sisters.

Holy Smoke! Designed by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852). "Former Presentation Convent, Slievekeale Road. Designed 1841, constructed 1842-63. Some fittings and furnishings after 1852 by Edward Welby Pugin. Traditional monastic layout around a quadrangular cloister. Some minor modifications but essentially intact, including rood screen. Conversion of the convent (a protected structure) to a health centre by Waterford firm DHB Architects completed in May 2009." From - www.puginfoundation.org/irish_buildings/ (down the page a little). The Rood Screen must be behind the photographer.

It's so beautiful.

Woow just love to watch this old photos that you upload!!!

Again, a bit of magic. Thanks for this kind of pictures.

beachcomber australia Good Lord (if you'll pardon the pun)! And there was I thinking this photo wasn't all that special...