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Here is an account of the meeting from the Irish Times August 5th 1924. The President and Vice President of the Executive Council , t Minister of External Affairs, the Chief Justice, the Commander in Chief, His Highness Prince Mirza Khan, Afra ed Dooleh, His Highness the Count von Schlitz, Gennant von Goertz, His Excellency Dr. Magalhaes de Azeredo, Senhor Figueredo, His Excellency the Baron Palmstierna. President Cosgrave, who was accompanied by Colonel O’Reilly, A.D.C. and Captain Murphy, A.D.C., was presented by the Marquis MacSwiney, M.R.I.A., to Dr L.C. Purser, Vice-President of the Academy, and to the following members of the Council who wore their academic robes: - Dr R. Lloyd Praeger, Sir Frederick Moore, V.P.; Dr R.F. Scharff, Dr W.R. Fearon, Very Rev. Dr Lawlor, Dean of St Patrick’s; Dr Kirpatrick, Dr R.A.S. Macalister, De Best, V.P.; Mr E.J. Gwynn, Dr. George O’Brien, Mr. W. G. Strickland and Mr W.F. Butler and to Senator W.B. Yeats, Litt.D, M.R.I.A., and Dr R Macalister, Resident Secretary. The president of the Academy (Dr. Sydney Young, F.R.S.) and the provost of trinity College, the Primate (Dr. d’Arcy) and other members of the Council, were unable to be present owing to absence abroad. The guests were conducted to the Moore Library, where the foreign visitors were presented to President Cosgrave who, owing to his absence in London, had not previously met them. They were then entertained to tea in the reading room , and then proceeded to the library, where some of the famous Irish Manuscripts possessed by the Academy were on view. Having examined these unique literary treasures they accompanied their hosts to the National Museum, where they were received by Mr J. J> Buckley, M.R.I.A., Acting Director, and inspected the Academy’s famous museum of Irish antiquities. We were informed that the exhibition of manuscripts and rare Irish books at the Academy will be open to the public each week-day except Saturdays, from 11.0 till 2.0. A fine collection of similar objects relating to Ireland has been arranged in the National Library, in Kildare street, and is open from 11.00 till 5.0 during the next fortnight.

DannyM8 Excellent, Danny, so we have an exact date too - Monday, 4 August 1924!

Carol Maddock And a couple of NLI connections - Praeger and the last paragraph of the IT piece!! We need the notes feature for this one.

www.britishpathe.com/video/royal-irish-academy/query/Prince Pathe coverage of the meeting and our picture

And this event at the RIA was part of the celebration of the first Tailteann Games. On the Persian Prince Mirza Riza Khan, the Irish Independent said:

In recognition of the splendid work done by this eminent Persian in the cause of peace, many distinctions of a literary and philosophic nature have been conferred upon him. He was the first Persian delegate to the League of Nations, and wrote an ode addressed to the first conference in favour of peace held at The Hague. This ode was translated into fifteen languages. The Prince is at present residing at Monte Carlo, where he owns a beautiful villa. It has been arranged to put the Chief Secretary’s Lodge in the Phoenix Park at his disposal during his stay in Dublin.

(Thursday, 24 July 1924)

Ben Bulbin in background

www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/32400...

“The estate was once 32,000 acres (13,000 ha) but now consists of less than 500 acres (200 ha), the immediate demesne of the house. The house was the childhood home of Irish revolutionary, Constance Gore-Booth, her sister the poet and suffragist, Eva Gore-Booth, and their siblings, Mabel Gore-Booth, Mordaunt Gore-Booth and Josslyn Gore-Booth. It was also the sometime holiday retreat of the world-renowned poet, William Butler Yeats. He made the house famous with the opening lines of his poem:
"In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz"
The light of evening, Lissadell,
Great windows open to the south,
Two girls in silk kimonos, both
Beautiful, one a gazelle.”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissadell_House

s P o O k Y ! . . .

"Lissadell, Sligo, February, 1891.

"On [Wednesday] April IO, 1889, at about half-past nine o'clock a.m., my youngest brother and I were going down a short flight of stairs leading to the kitchen to fetch food for my chickens, as usual. We were about half way down, my brother a few steps in advance of me, when he suddenly said - 'Why, there's John Blaney ; I didn't know he was in the house !' John Blaney was a boy who lived not far from us, and he had been employed in the house as hall-boy not long before. I said that I was sure it was not he (for I knew he had left some months previously on account of ill-health), and looked down into the passage, but saw no one. The passage was a long one, with a rather sharp turn in it, so we ran quickly down the last few steps and looked round the corner, but nobody was there, and the only door he could have gone through was shut. As we went upstairs my brother said, ' How pale and ill John looked, and why did he stare so ?' I asked what he was doing. My brother answered that he had his sleeves turned up, and was wearing a large green apron, such as the footmen always wear at their work. An hour or two afterwards I asked my maid how long John Blaney had been back in the house. She seemed much surprised, and said, 'Didn't you hear, miss, that he died this morning ?' On inquiry we found he had died about two hours before my brother saw him. My mother did not wish that my brother should be told this, but he heard of it somehow, and at once declared that he must have seen his ghost.

"Mabel Olive Gors Booth."

See - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/19014591

The two children on the (broken) steps - who might they be? Thinking around 1890 due to the condensed script titling.
The companion reverse-ish view also has two fellas leaning out of a window looking guilty - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000330176

Drumcliffe? goo.gl/maps/h58SKYgmjYn FISA - www.flickr.com/photos/annaprescott/2274099124/ Image is reversed. Is that a monkey half way up?

That's Drumcliffe, but I think the image needs to be reversed - see comparable image here: historicgraves.com/graveyard/st-columba-s-church-ireland-...

Definitely Drumcliffe, as children we were told that when the wisest man in Ireland passed under the tower it would fall on him!

Useful description and history of the two crosses and the round tower - www.megalithicireland.com/HighCross Drumcliffe.html www.megalithicireland.com/DrumcliffeRoundTower.html Ed. Sorry for bad links - I'm having no luck fixing them ... Ed. 2 - Thanks to Sharon whose links are good below VV

beachcomber australia The links seem to be missing ".html" at the end of the urls. Round Tower High Cross