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Congratulation for your beautiful Album.

I don't know where it is but that man standing on the cart with the two milk churns really does bring back memories!

A map on p690 of the new 'Atlas of the Irish Revolution' includes 207 entries for attacks on bridges under railways between 28/6/1922 and 31/12/1922... But is this a railway bridge?

This one's a toughie!

If it's a railway bridge it's a long time afer it was blown up. The tracks would still be there otherwise.

That's the view from the O'Connell Bridge looking westwards along the quay - you can see the building to the left of Cox's is now painted blue and called the Abbey Court - maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=o'connell+bridge,+dublin&hl=... A slightly different view shows Keogh's on the corner which is now the Bachelor Inn - maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=o'connell+bridge,+dublin&hl=...

billh35 Thanks! Had a moment of self-doubt because I had thought that the Ha'penny Bridge would have been visible from there...

The two British officers were killed in the gun battle at 'Fernside', Drumcondra, from which Seán Treacy and Dan Breen - Vice-O/C and Quartermaster of the 3rd Tipperary Brigade IRA, respectively - narrowly escaped. Treacy is believed to have attended the funeral procession shown here - who knows, maybe he's in the photo - just hours before he himself was killed on Talbot Street. Niamh Hassett and Daniel Jack, Searching for Seán: remembering Seán Treacy 100 years on (2020), 135-6: "Leo Henderson reported seeing Treacy around 1pm coming from the direction of Amiens Street and the area where the funeral cortege was passing along the quays. Reputedly, Treacy attended to pray for the souls of the men who were killed at Fernside. At a later meeting in the Republican Outfitters [on Talbot Street], Treacy confirmed that he was indeed at the funeral procession." National Library of Ireland on The Commons

An Poc Ar Buile Noted, thank you, Mary.

I'm interested by the 'T. Clarke' name over the shop - is it Tom Clarke of Rising fame or just a coincidence? It's interested to see so many well-dressed women standing around, so I suspect that's some sort of after-event. My mother is from Bray and she tells me that Kevin Barry's mother lived there and when she was a child she would see her walking around the town, and people were always doffing their hats to her and she was considered a tragic figure. I think that might have been as last as the 1960s. Had he lived Kevin Barry would undoubtedly have reached a ripe old age, although he might have not been very well known. He died very young.

My grandfather used to sing this after a few glasses: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysH86MMwPs8&list=RDysH86MMwPs8

I think the big door at right may be Monk's bakery on Church Street/North king Street?

Patrick Monk’s Bakery at 79-80 Upper Church Street, near the corner of North King Street, Dublin,

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