stationers

hmm Usually i hear of parades or marches for the army (apparently as a power show) ... but policemen parade? I don't know how much common is that.

I find the "slow unravelling of the photos details and origins" on these pages through the investigative comments and detailed knowledge of several posters as fascinating as the photos themselves - yesterdays was a great example ...... I'll be back to see what follows

Hurraah, Hurrah Limerick features on NLI in Flickr but where's this Georges Street I ask. That beautiful thoroughfare is O'Connell St with The Crescent and O'Connell Avenue in the distance. Limerick is of course a very old city but in the 1700's/1800's a planned city on a grid was developed and this street was part of what is/was Newtown-Pery. The massed ranks are marching in the opposite direction to modern parades as we normally had parades that marched down towards the O'Connell Street/William St. junction behind the photographer. I know they look like policemen but I can't see that many "polis" having a role in Limerick around that time. They are marching in the direction of the "New" barracks, now Sarsfields Barracks, and I suspect that this might explain the direction and the echelons.

there seem to be a band marching in the opposite direction???

TJ No TJ, if you look closely in Original size you will see that they have the bayonet frogs to the left just like the group closest the camera. I was just going to comment on the bayonets, they are each wearing a bayonet in a frog on a white belt. This is more a military item of kit than police and looking at the dress of the NCO's they are wearing sashes etc which is once again more a military affectation than a police one.

Is that the original image? It looks like it's been run through a sharpen filter.

I don't think it's '30s, btw. There'd have been fewer postwar cars about then.

derangedlemur I think it's 1940s (from skirt lengths and girls' hair dos), and I tweaked shadow/highlight because the shadows were so dark. This'll give you an idea of original...

Men without hats!

IM 6248 is no help (IM 1 to IM 9999 (Jan 1904 – Oct 1950)

a big day for hats, Clonmel is certainly stylish on top. the women wrapped in scarves and wraps are more dramatic than usual. mounted policeman too. this is a fabulous scene to pick apart

Mr French seems to have been on the first floor of the Main Guard building; see behind in this streetview - goo.gl/maps/LW8nrEoLCCL3WMr97 The high view means that the distant tower of St Mary's Catholic Church is more visible. In 2009 via Dave Messinger

The Fitzhenrys are stationers on O'Connell St in the census of 1901, but have retired by 1911. RIC man in a forage cap at left means not much before 1900.

All the straw hats suggest 1905ish to me.

Main St had been renamed to O'Connell St by the time of the 25-inch, surveyed 1904, published 1906.