1916 - The Official Thread

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Dublin in 1916 Photographs: Sean Sexton Collection

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/21/easter-rising-100-years-on-share-your-photos-and-stories

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Dublin in 1916 Photographs: Sean Sexton Collection
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...os-and-stories

Saw that exhibition listed JBo....but you know the curator of that collection refers to the group known to Collins' intel men as 'The Murder Gang' who were in fact part of F Coy ADRIC..... and nothing to do with those undercover agents killed ob Bloody Sunday..... it's a common held view all over the net, but it's wrong. More destruction 1916.

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A rare, albeit poor quality photograph, taken by photographic chemist Joseph Cripps inside the GPO. The image, portrays the miscellany of uniforms and weapons, as well as the age range of volunteers, from what looks like 30-year-olds to teenagers. Credit: Military Archives

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In one large room full of portraits in the Royal College of Surgeons, one young man cut the canvas of this painting of Queen Victoria into shreds, to use as leggings. An angry Commandant Michael Mallin ordered him to stop. Seen here are the remains of the painting, after Easter Week. Credit: Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland

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The cover of the Irish Life souvenir book of 1916 depicts the spectacular flames over Sackville Street on Thursday evening of Easter Week. Credit: Capuchin Archives.

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The GPO came under direct shell fire late on Friday afternoon. The roof quickly caught fire and began to collapse. This print by Walter Paget depicts the desperate scene. By evening Pearse and Connolly had decided that the GPO was no longer tenable and began to plan an evacuation. Credit: National Library of Ireland

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A map, prepared by Captain Purcell, head of the Dublin Fire Brigade, showing the post-Rising damage in central Dublin. Credit: Las Fallon

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bean Crosby is holding what looks like a French lebel 1877 rifle and bayonet.

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This was the Brit Gun Position at the Parnell end of Moore that did a lot of killing, as the rebels left the burning GPO and made their way down Moore St, with The O'Rahilly's leading the first wave....following waves would try Henry Place, but it was just as bad, and there was talk of them being cut down as they reached the bend.

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Connolly’s ghastly form of execution caused particular public outrage. His death is colourfully depicted in this poster for a prisoner relief fund in New York in October 1916. Credit: New York Public Library.

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Linenhall Barracks

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Women of 1916
The perception of women’s participation in the 1916 Rising has changed with the generations. We now have the names of 300 participants. Military Archives material released in the past decade has transformed what we know of women’s involvement in the revolutionary years. Witness statements give us the voice of participants, and letters of verification written for women to receive pensions give us the stories of many that had been elusive.

Countess Markievicz and Michael Mallin captured after the Easter Rising. Photograph: courtesy of National Museum of Ireland

http://www.irishtimes.com/1916/women-of-1916-1.2535291

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Interesting to note how the press were accused of airbrushing a female out of history....

When nurse O'Farrell was told by General Lowe to return to him with Pearse to the end of Moore Street where he would accept his unconditional surrender, that's exactly what happened.....

but as the photographer was about to take the historic photo nurse Elizabeth thought it better she was not included, and so moved her body back behind Pearse......and that is how and why we only just see her feet in the original pic.

So having learned from the nurse herself in a statement why she does not feature in the pic.....the press went ahead any tidied it up.

But that wasn't the only reason the pic changed.

In the pic we see the most senior army officer in Dublin at the time, Brigadier- General Lowe. Lowe had received a phone call at his HQ in the Curragh, and immediately mobilised his Brigade to Dublin.

Once there Lowe assumed command of British forces in Dublin and set about securing the line between the station, Dublin Castle and Trinity College, thus dividing the rebel positions north and south of the river.

Present with him at the surrender was his son and aide-de-camp, Major John Lowe, who is supposed to be lighting a cigarette in the original picture. Notice too the Majors jacket, and also the stance (head position) of the Brigadier

Though close up scrutiny shows more an unfortunate blemish rather than a cigarette.....either way it was ironed out of the final photo as seen below, and all was well.

Lowe’s son would later change his named to John Loder and became a Hollywood star, appearing in films such as King Solomon’s Mines.
Loder's was married five times.....second time to the Austrian-American Hedy Lemarr.

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The GPO clock stopped ......at

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The Bulfin Flag..... the flag seen here captured by Brit soldiers was hoisted on the roof of the GPO by Argentinian Eamon Bulfin. Bulfin was born in Argentina to Irish parents.

After the Rising Bulfin was sentenced to death, but was spared after intervention by the Argentine consul to Dublin, and after a spell in Frongoch he was deported back to Argentina for being a bold boy. later.....de Valera made him the Irish representative in Argentina.

On the formation of the Irish Free State, Bulfin returned to Ireland, and became active in local politics.

His sister, Catalina, was secretary to Austin Stack and married the Nobel Prize-winner Seán MacBride, the son of Major John MacBride and Maud Gonne.

Bulfin Road in Inchicore, Dublin 8 is named after him.

The flag is seen in the pix hung upside down from a rifle on two separate occasions in a mark of disrespect for the rebels.... it was made by Mary Shannon at the headquarters of the Irish Citizen Army in Liberty Hall.

The flag was returned to Ireland via the Irish ambassador to UK in time for the 1966 50th anniversary of the Rising, and is held in the NMI Collins Barracks.

Another flag flown by the rebels for the Rising was the 'Starry Plough' originally used by the Irish Citizen Army, a socialist Irish republican movement.

The original Starry Plough was designed by George William Russell for the Irish Citizen Army and unveiled in 1914.

James Connolly, co-founder of the Irish Citizen Army with Jack White, said the significance of the banner was that a free Ireland would control its own destiny from the plough to the stars.

It was flown carried by one of the three Espell brothers and most likely hoisted by him over the Imperial Hotel on the day.

James Connolly is reported to have taken great pride in this event as the building was owned by his foe, William Martin Murphy — who was opposed to trade unionism and the ITGWU.

Martin Murphy was at the centre of the Dublin Lock-out industrial dispute.
The Imperial was one of the first buildings to go down in flames during the Rising.

The 1916 flag as in pic below, is on display at the National Museum, Collins Barracks, in Dublin.

The original green background was changed by members of the Republican Congress to BLUE in the 1930's, and adopted by the labour movement.

The flag depicts part of the constellation of Ursa Major, known as The Plough in Ireland and Britain, one of the most prominent features of the night sky over the Northern Hemisphere throughout the year.

While similar to the state flag of Alaska, it predates Alaska's by more than a decade.

1........The original flag flown over the Imperial Hotel 1916.
2........The Imperial Hotel Dublin. (later became Clery's after a rebuild).
5........Alaska State Flag.