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23 August 1925 was a Sunday . . .

Duncannon ?? - goo.gl/maps/hswUy4Kjwe7Fai1eA

They weren't building the church, it opened in 1896 per the DIA.

Per the Irish Newspaper Archive, I see headlines for (edited for readability): Friday August 28, 1925 Duncannon Fete and Sports. Friday August 21, 1925 The list of probables for Sunday's big event at Duncannon will be further augmented by Sunday evening. Friday August 14, 1925 DUNCANNON CARNIVAL promoters of the above to provide an attractive bill of fare for those visiting Duncannon on the 23rd. Valuable prizes will be given for the various athletic events, including a handsome silver CUP for the five-mile marathon race presented by Messrs. T. and H. Heine, jewellers, Waterford. (Unfortunately, the Waterford Council digitized archive does not cover 1925.) The 23rd was indeed a Sunday in 1925.

A different Stella Maris “Far away in the west the sun was setting and the last glow of all too fleeting day lingered lovingly on sea and strand, on the proud promontory of dear old Howth guarding as ever the waters of the bay, on the weedgrown rocks along Sandymount shore and, last but not least, on the quiet church whence there streamed forth at times upon the stillness the voice of prayer to her who is in her pure radiance a beacon ever to the stormtossed heart of man, Mary, star of the sea.” ― James Joyce, Ulysses

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The man talking to King Albert in this picture (at right) is probably Rodman Wanamaker. See

“The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. From 1721 to 1801, it was also the highest political office of the Irish Parliament: the Chancellor was Speaker of the Irish House of Lords. The Lord Chancellor was also Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland. In all three respects, the office mirrored the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Chancellor_of_Ireland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_O%27Brien,_1st_Baron_Shandon He left Ireland for good following a SF raid n his home

He held the post from 1913 to 1918, so that’s the date range

we have seen silhouette images like this from Poole of people at the races

I always love a "life" in the DIB written by Patrick Maume, and Ignatius John O'Brien's is no exception. Well worth a read. Some delicacies to tempt you...

... Many years later, as a successful judge, he recalled with horror such journalistic experiences as attending inquests on paupers; being sent to the house where Isaac Butt lay dying, with peremptory orders to knock at intervals and ask if he had died yet; and witnessing the Maamtrasna murder trials, at which an aristocratic lady (whom he compared to Jezebel) sat on the bench and pronounced it excellent entertainment... ... O'Brien's self-assertion and lack of clubbability were signalled by his decision to become the first Dublin barrister to live outside the North and South Circular Roads – barristers then held consultations in their own houses, and feared solicitors would boycott anyone who moved into the suburbs. O'Brien did business from an office in Merrion Square, and travelled to his new residence (Ardtona, on eleven acres in Churchtown, near Dundrum) by bicycle... ... He was dismissed as lord chancellor in June 1918 and promoted to the peerage as Baron Shandon in consolation. His abrupt departure (seen as reflecting the increasing dominance of Dublin Castle hard-liners) provoked considerable comment. One Law Library wit suggested he should have become Baron Stepaside; another, in a cruel reference to his childlessness, preferred ‘Lord Stillorgan’... ... a sensitive and somewhat neurotic meritocrat, haunted at the sufferings inflicted by inefficiency, and believing that the great fault of British administration of Ireland under the union was not so much brutality as stupidity.

I wonder if this is the ‘Ardtona’ earth.app.goo.gl/VwwjEB #googleearth More Churchtown than Dundrum. That general area was the location of many villas of the 19th century rich.