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16 May, Anno 1596 was a Sunday !!

This was an illustration in the 1895 edition of the Life of Hugh, Roe O'Donnell by Lughaigh O'Clery. The translation is given as: Most Serene Prince, We have written to your father, the mighty King, as well as haste would allow us, what we thought most necessary for us and our country. In this business we beseech your Highness to respond generously to the hopes which we entertain of his generous qualities, and set us down in the number of his clients, and help us mercifully, as is his wont in a cause so pious and just, namely the asserting of Catholic liberty and the delivering our country from the yoke of wicked tyrants ; and in this way obeying the majesty of God, he will save an infinite number of souls from the jaws of hell, gain them over to Christ, and either crush utterly the agents of Satan's wrath and the wicked disturbers of the Christian republic or compel them to return to wiser counsels. We beg God to grant your most serene Highness every blessing. From Lifford, May 16th, in the year 1596. [L.S.] Hugh O'Neill. [L.S.] Hugh O'Donnell.

I'm a bit lost as to Don Carolo is, as I can't find a Spanish prince by that name, who was still alive in 1596. On the one hand, I may be just missing someone, but on the other hand, I did note that the prince is not actually named in the letter, and it's possible that someone mistakenly assumed that the letter was written to Don Carlos rather than Philip III.

Sharon Corbet Ah, now! You can't go cogging your Latin homework out of a history book! ;)

Sharon Corbet I wonder if the answer is here: dib.cambridge.org/viewFullScreen.do?filename=a8702 Little is known of his immediate family other than that he was foster-brother to Cathal O'Connor, one of the O'Connors of Offaly, who fled to Spain and became known as Don Carolo. This O'Connor drowned trying to sail back to Ireland during the Nine Years' War. If it is intended for that Don Carolo, then the reference to the King being his father is more an honorific - suggesting a closeness to royalty and noble status - rather than saying that the King is literally his father. This is one era of Irish history that I wish I knew better.

H.F. Cooper obviously "photoshopped" onto this image.

1910 directory has a Burroughs, photographer, on Railway Road. By 1918, Burroughs is gone, and Herbert Cooper, photographer, is at Railway Road.

Streetview is a guess based on the gable and chimneys of the far building - Cooper's premises are gone, if I'm right.

I think I see BURR under the HF Cooper - so I think Cooper made this image out of a picture of Burroughs premises before he had the signwriters in!

cooopers studio and shop on the RHS of the street with the glass panels in the roof , probably the studio

photo probably taken from the roof of the cinema which was owned by Cooper the photographer.