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The Royal Hospital Kilmainham dining hall in all its splendour with the panoply of war (in case anyone might forget its residents former calling)! A building that seemed destined to be made derelict, but has been resurrected and restored to become a priceless addition to the Dublin art scene!
Guliolopez provides some extra detail on the 17th-century 'great hall', which used for dining and recreation by the ex-soldiers who were cared-for in the RHK. As per the "then and now" comparison image that Niall McAuley provides, it's still used for events, receptions and dining - though clearly without all the weaponry and armour adorning the walls. I wonder where it all went.....?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_04022
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Guliolopez provides some extra detail on the 17th-century 'great hall', which used for dining and recreation by the ex-soldiers who were cared-for in the RHK. As per the "then and now" comparison image that Niall McAuley provides, it's still used for events, receptions and dining - though clearly without all the weaponry and armour adorning the walls. I wonder where it all went.....?
Photographer: Robert French
Collection: Lawrence Photograph Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1865-1914
NLI Ref: L_ROY_04022
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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Niall McAuley
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Am I seeing electric lamps? See note.
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"No dogs will dine here by God!" Or, do you mean, no dogs on the menu, here? Or, were you referring to English?
oaktree_brian_1976
Large British flag with a crest in the middle of it, other one looks like a variation on the Red Ensign along the left wall. Flag from a unit at Waterloo? See on the left of these flags www.warflag.com/napflags/flaghtml/britKGL.htm
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/cassidyphotography - I think Morning Mary was referring to the likelihood that the usual morning past-time (the dog hunt) would be fruitless today. (At least, as you say, if we didn't include any mystery meat from the menu...) https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley - Thanks for the "today" shot. I wonder where all the weapons went.... https://www.flickr.com/photos/66151649@N02 - Any flags that you can see that might help refine the date range a little? Though maybe https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia is onto something with the lighting...
guliolopez
The "History of the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Near Dublin ... with Copious Notes and an Appendix" (Burton, 1843) includes a description on page 179:
Taste of course being entirely subjective :)guliolopez
The same book ('History of the Royal Hospital', Burton, 1843), has a description of the hall and its gallery on page 120:
It also has some notes on the dining traditions on page 123, which may explain the lonely looking table we see in this image: The same page describes some of the flags as including the standard 'borne by the Enniskillen dragoons' (at the Battle of the Boyne), of the '54th regiment' (at Gibraltar) and of the 'ninetieth light infantry' ('waved victorious over Egypt's sands').National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks https://www.flickr.com/photos/20727502@N00 - Very interesting indeed. Seems that while the portraits remain (unsurprising given the RHK's modern use as an art space), all the weaponry seems to be gone. I wonder where it went? Is there a strongbox in the basement somewhere I wonder? Or did someone melt it all down into part modern-art, part Game-of-Thrones homage? :)
oaktree_brian_1976
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Those are old flags, they look faded/see through. They seemed to have used square ones until the end of the 19th Century. I'm almost inclined to say the 51st Light Infantry, they were under garrison duty in Ireland in the 1764. I could see these being 100 yr old flags by the time this was taken, I"m inclined to say before 1914, late 19th Century. This is the closest flag I could find, www.51stlight.co.uk/equipment.html There's a Royal Coat of Arms above the fireplace near the middle, it shows the Irish harp in the lower left, so it's certainly before 1917. Was used form 1837 onwards.
Corey Bryson
a beautiful photo... a wishing I was there in that room to take it feeling. thanks for posting!
Dr. Ilia
beautifully captured!
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Evidently Field-Marshal Lord Roberts lived here in 1898 - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71285406
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Oohh - very interesting https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia. Funny how the beloved "Bobs" keeps cropping-up. The legendary six-degrees-of-separation are often quickly reduced/elminated in this stream. (One "slow news day" we must make a game of it. To see how quickly two otherwise unrelated images can be linked :) )
kehoe_barry
The armaments went to the British War Museum after closure. The Royal coat of arms over the door is now in Chelsea. The display of war trophies was in a museum in the pigeon House fort originally and was moved to kilmainham in the 19th century. It was open to the public to visit, the pensioners acted as guides.