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cool picture Via Dawn Woodhouse's contacts' uploads on Fluidr

Who was capturing and who was captured in this photo?

Excellent shot once again NLI. As you said they do look relaxed though the future of the prisoner might be rather uncertain. He is a fine looking young man and there is almost a sense of relief in his expression. Patrick the men in uniform are Free State or Pro-treaty soldiers and the young prisoner is a Republican rebel or anti-treaty soldier. Both were probably on the same side some months earlier fighting against the British and now they were killing each other with equal ferocity in their disagreement as to how the war should have ended. The prisoner is one of the lucky ones because as usual in civil wars mercy was not always shown by either side.

Swordscookie Excellently put!

great very nice

There's an interesting mix of uniforms & civilian clothes in this picture. The date of the picture would suggest that this might have been part of the Battle of Kilmallock.

possibly not "Red Cross" as one of them is definitely in military uniform - first sighting (!) of army medical corps ...

A Google image search finds a version in the University College Dublin, Desmond Fitzgerald photographs, with this blurb - " Photograph by W.D. Hogan of three Irish Free State Army soldiers, two members of a medical corps, tending the leg of a wounded man; one soldier is supporting the man's head; the wounded man is dressed in civilian clothes but is possibly wearing a gun belt. " www.europeana.eu/en/item/2064501/https___data_ucd_ie_data...

25 July 1922 was a Tuesday. On the previous Tuesday, 18 July, Mr Hogan was in Dublin with a makeshift ambulance -

This was taken on the same day (25 July) - it might provide more clues - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000194509

Bruff perhaps? cf. HOG124 www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/23910879970

Fits with the courthouse shaped building being missing today: www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/21803...

25 July 1922 was a Tuesday . . .

The papers on the 25th July 1922 report a stand at Bruff by "Irregulars". The siege of the barracks and fighting seem to have occurred on he previous Thursday and Friday (20th & 21st July). Freeman's Journal reported that the first hint the National garrison had of an impending siege was when an Irregular Red Cross hospital was set up a few miles outside the town.

Streetview (edited - I had the wrong church!)

very interesting -- Seen on your photo stream. ( ?² )

old picture,recall of the past time

It will be very hard to tell from the lack of identifiable personnel or topographical features. There was a good bit of activity in the war at that time with a lot of it centred in Kerry around Tralee and in Cork. The lads are at least going to have a hot bath?

When you run along the line of these shots you will find the one that Sbreathnach confirmed as being taken in Bruff Co. Limerick around that time (the other one with the Pathe news strip of the prisoner was also there) it might be that it was taken in that part of Limerick in the Free Staters drive to Kilmallock as he said!

Swordscookie I have to go back over a lot of comments and will catch up with Sbreathnach hopefully...