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22 July 1930 was a Tuesday ...

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Here's a James Cahill, once of Rosbercon . New Ross Standard - Saturday 01 April 1967

John Spooner That James Cahill was 63 in 1967, per his death record. Unemployed, living in Iveagh Hostel

Well they weren't celebrating the completion of the brickwork.

many moustaches! -- Seen on my Flickr home page. (?)

joe crowley Obviously the rebel of the bunch!

National Library of Ireland on The Commons ...or he got banished to the back row! haha

From this article For their impact on the character of trade unionism, the most important state interventions were those on the railway and in agriculture. Under severe rank and file pressure, the London-based National Union of Railwaymen (NUR) sanctioned a national strike in Ireland in December 1916. As private interests would not meet the pay demand, the government stepped in to keep the war effort running smoothly, took control of Ireland's thirty two railway companies, and awarded a substantial war bonus. Over the next nine months the NUR's Irish affiliation rocketed from 5,000 to 17,000 members. It was a victory for the rank and file over the union’s London executive, as well as for the union over the railway companies. In 1917 NUR men launched the monthly journal New Way and developed the most articulate rank and file movement in Ireland during these years. The same article mentions James 'Big Jim' Larkin (and his hat and droopy moustache), but according to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Larkin he was in the USA between 1914 and 1923.

British Library, Colindale Newspaper Library "The New Way" Dublin 1917, Irish Railway Review The organ of railway workers and railway users in Ireland. Microfilm: Oct.1917 explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt...

Love this image... and I can't quite put into words why exactly. It feels like it could have been posed yesterday for some overly presumptuous band promo-photo. The cliche props... everyone looking slightly away from the camera but in their own "lost" kind of way.

This photograph is feintly captioned "LANE COVE 1896" perhaps it may be 1895. The beer bottles have labels "The Royal Ale" and "Bernard's Edinburgh - India Pale Ale" enclosing a photograph of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, later to be His Majesty Edward VII. The chap on the left appears to have "LOO-E" written on the band of his hat. Using the zoom function at the Persistent URL, I daresay the man at the far right in this photograph is the same man at the far right in the boat here: www.flickr.com/photos/powerhouse_museum/3072377799/

Well done Lifeasdaddy, that zoom fn on the persistent URL is brilliant, here I was trying to decipher the print with a magnifying glass! www.archiveshub.ac.uk/apr02.shtml The original Looe of course is a fishing port in Cornwall, and given the location and slightly nautical headgear, could it be the name of their boat?

I did not even know there is an original Looe.

These glass plates are just so amazing. So sharp and beautiful. I love seeing these glass negatives in person.