1916 - The Official Thread

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...............1916.

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Winnie Carney:

It is said that Winifred Carney joined the insurgents of the Easter Rising equipped with both her typewriter, shown above, and a gun.

"General John Maxwell decided Winifred and six other ladies - including Constance Markievicz were the most dangerous women in Ireland,"

[cosmo]

fairyhouse poster for easter Monday 1916, a lot of british officers and troops took the opportunity to go.

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Senior Surviving Relatives of 1916 Proclamation.

[cogito]

fairyhouse poster for easter Monday 1916, a lot of british officers and troops took the opportunity to go.

The Ward Union Hunt still exists...

[KatieMorag]

The Ward Union Hunt still exists...

Really? What does it hunt, foxes?

[KatieMorag]

Winnie Carney:

Very nice photo of Winnie

[cogito]

Really? What does it hunt, foxes?

Used to, I think - not now though. Then they hunted stags around these parts - but they're not allowed to anymore.

Maybe they've downloaded an app ?

[jembo]

Used to, I think - not now though. Then they hunted stags around these parts - but they're not allowed to anymore.

Maybe they've downloaded an app ?

Think they follow a laid down false scent as they do in the Uk.

[DAMNTHEWEATHER]

Think they follow a laid down false scent as they do in the Uk.

Still some sneaky fox hunters about

[cosmo]

rere of i6? moore st after the last stand of the insurgents .

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rere of i6? moore st after the last stand of the insurgents .

Nice one Cos....a great article here about Paddy Lynch believed to have been shot. ..the building is still there albeit with some alterations.

It's not too far from where The O'Rahilly died....was part of Moore lane now O'Rahilly Parade in his honour.

http://eastwallforall.ie/?p=3313

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1916......Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, with troops in Dublin in the aftermath the Rising. He has resigned his post as Viceroy in Ireland citing official blunders in the handling of the situation.

[cosmo]

top, new zeland, new zeland, Australian imperial force, after helping in trinity college , 1916.

three colonials and a south African coming out of trinity college 1916 ??

two fianna eireann boys, looks 1916 era.

lancers in Westmoreland street.

disturbance in Dublin ….looks like a pre rebellion pic ??

[cosmo]

'two plunkett' brothers under arrest.


scene in Sackville st .


group pic with roger casement , prior to the rising.


carson reviewing uvf, placed them at govts pleasure during easter 1916.



scene at liberty hall, could that be james Connolly on window sill.