uprising

According to the official military historians: "1912 Cuba A negro uprising, organized by the “Independientes de Color”, occurred in Cuba during May, 1912, assumed such proportions that on the 23rd of May the Navy Department ordered marines to the U.S. Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. U.S.S. Prairie and U.S.S. Paducah A provisional brigade of marines consisting of 69 officers and 2,008 enlisted men, under the command of Colonel Lincoln Karmany, U.S.M.C., was assembled at Philadelphia, Pa., and Norfolk, Va., for temporary foreign tropical shore service. The First Regiment, consisting of 29 officers and 756 men under the command of Colonel George Barnett, U.S.M.C., embarked on board the U.S.S. Prairie, at Philadelphia, Pa., and sailed on May 23, 1912, for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S.S. Praire arrived on May 28, 1912, and the regiment disembarked, less Company A, and went into camp." www.history.navy.mil/library/online/haiti_list_exp.htm#1911

If this is from the same photo shoot as the LoC photo titled "Boston Marines going on PRAIRIE" (photo dated 3/11), then the following excerpt from "A History of the 1st Marines," by Maj John H Johnstone, probably tells us what's going on: "The 1st Regiment, 1st Provisional Brigade, was organized aboard the USS PRAIRIE on 8 March 1911 for temporary foreign shore service in Cuba. Actually, this maneuver was designed as a show of force to dissuade Mexican rebel activities near the border of the United States. The Marine Corps, having demonstrated its readiness and ability to move quickly from either coast to troubled areas, returned the regiment to Philadelphia by 22 June with the knowledge that it could be readily mobilized if again needed." A reader of Brainiac (my column/blog in/for the Boston Globe's Ideas section) sent the excerpt. Here's a blog entry dedicated to guesses about the other photo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Prairie_(AD-5)

After August, 1914, Major-General L.B. Friend was head of the Irish Command, commanding all British forces in Ireland. Here, from another part of The Commons is his Martial Law proclamation from around the time of the Easter Uprising in 1916:

See also:
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"Major General Sir Lovick Bransby Friend KBE, CB, PC (25 April 1856 — 19 November 1944) was a British Army major general and cricketer. He was appointed Major-General in charge of Administration at Irish Command in 1912 and Commander-in-Chief, Ireland in 1914: he was replaced following the Easter Rising in 1916.[2] From 1916 until retirement in 1920 he was President of the Claims Commission British Armies in France." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovick_Friend

Frenchill on my maps!

Erected in grateful remembrance of the gallant french soldiers who died fighting for the freedom of ireland on the 27th august 1798

www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/31307...

Reportage chez Google, hon hon hon.

maps.app.goo.gl/6eCDyJne4aXgQ3FK6?g_st=ac

See also L_ROY_06047, L_CAB_07309

27 August 1798 was a Monday ...

Brief history - www.castlebar.ie/Nostalgia_and_History/French-Hill-Monume...

Is May correct? She was released from Holloway prison on Friday 15th March and arrived in Dublin the following day and made a speech from the windows of Liberty Hall (according to press reports).

Merry Christmas NLI Marys and everyone - thanks for all the flickroonie fun this year! No idea who these people are, but the Countess Markievicz seems to have been one huge character - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Markievicz

John Spooner I suspect that the question mark behind May in the title was to seek clarification on that point John. If it was her release from prison in March then what, if anything, was happening in May or was this March???

Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

beachcomber australia If further evidence of her forceful character were needed (and it isn't) this is how she summed up her treatment in Holloway Prison
(Nottingham Evening Post - Thursday 20 March 1919)