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A name I have heard many times in the course of my life and yet I could tell you little about him. Lennox Robinson looking rather dapper with a fine wool overcoat, suit and dicky bow tie!
We are back though many of those who normally visit us here will not be back just yet! For all of you may we wish you a Peaceful, Happy and safe New Year and especially for our friends in Australia. We watch in horror at the fires and you are all in our thoughts and prayers!
UPDATE: Thanks especially to suckindeesel for giving us Tim Pat Coogan’s lovely description of this “tall, thin, tweedy man”...
“When I knew him, he lived in a flat, large and comfortable, but still only a flat ... at Longford Terrace, Monkstown. ... One of the great sights of Monkstown in those years was Lennox, a tall, thin, tweedy man with a distant expression, being led by a very tiny Sealyham dog, at the end of a very long lead, on his peregrinations to and from Goggins pub, the very epitome of the Irish expression ‘the relics of auld decency’.”
Photographers: Various
Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1920-1958
NLI Ref: NPA PERS71
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
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We are back though many of those who normally visit us here will not be back just yet! For all of you may we wish you a Peaceful, Happy and safe New Year and especially for our friends in Australia. We watch in horror at the fires and you are all in our thoughts and prayers!
UPDATE: Thanks especially to suckindeesel for giving us Tim Pat Coogan’s lovely description of this “tall, thin, tweedy man”...
“When I knew him, he lived in a flat, large and comfortable, but still only a flat ... at Longford Terrace, Monkstown. ... One of the great sights of Monkstown in those years was Lennox, a tall, thin, tweedy man with a distant expression, being led by a very tiny Sealyham dog, at the end of a very long lead, on his peregrinations to and from Goggins pub, the very epitome of the Irish expression ‘the relics of auld decency’.”
Photographers: Various
Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1920-1958
NLI Ref: NPA PERS71
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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sharon.corbet
Esmé Stuart Lennox Robinson was "was an Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre " according to Wikipedia .
sharon.corbet
One of his plays is on at the Abbey at the moment - Drama at Inish.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/scorbet So the "Lennox" was part of a double barreled surname? Welcome back Sharon and a happy new year to you. It's nice to know that I am not the only one up and out of bed:-)
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Ever hear of Laurel and Hardy? Kind of reminds me of Stan Laurel. Thanks, for your thoughts and Prayers - Ireland. I think the government economic strategy is to very gradually wean the dependence of the Australian economy off coal, while the climate is aggressively changing. Makes perfect sense, if you want to get re-elected.
sharon.corbet
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Happy New Year to you too! And while I am up, I’m still on my holliers until the middle of next week! Doesn’t look like it's a double barreled name based on the 1901 Census, instead his parents named him after Esmé Stuart, Duke of Lennox.
sharon.corbet
Here he is in the birth registry from October 1886.
Paddywhack56
A very Happy New Year to all at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland. Looking forward to your posts in 2020.
suckindeesel
Of Anglo Irish descent, was a strong nationalist. The Abbey lost its patron Annie Horniman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Horniman when he refused to close the theatre during the 1910 death of Edward VII. “Ireland is no more theirs than ours, We must glory in our difference, be as proud of it as they theirs.” "The Big House", 1926 Not a popular opinion at the time. According to Wiki, the Abbey Players were prevented from attending his funeral under threat of excommunication.
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HNY 2020 flickeroonies! Hoping for 20/20 vision with the benefit of hindsight ... And a spot of rain! I like his coat. And we have met him earlier when he was older (if you know what I mean), walking his naughty little upskirting dog ... https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/34195798906/
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia "When I knew him, he lived in a flat, large and comfortable, but still only a flat,.., at Longford Terrace, Monkstown....One of the great sights of Monkstown in those years was Lennox, a tall, thin, tweedy man with a distant expression, being led by a very tiny Sealyham dog, at the end of a very long lead, on his peregrinations to and from Goggins pub, the very epitome of the Irish expression 'the relics of auld decency'" Tim Pat Coogan, Ireland in the 20th century.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Well remembered!!
sharon.corbet
I feel obliged to point out that while he may have been photographed with a dog on one occasion, he was actually painted with a cat.
Niall McAuley
Here is the record of his death in 1958 aged 72. His address is given as 20 Longford Terrace as [https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04] reports, the red door in this streetview. His Occupation is still Writer and Producer. Cause of death long words meaning heart failure. No record of his marriage - wikipedia says they married in Chelsea and honeymooned in America with the Abbey on tour.
Niall McAuley
Also as https://www.flickr.com/photos/184711311@N04 reports, that Wiltshire shot is indeed on the route from Longford Terrace to Goggins pub in Monkstown, which would be in sight if the photographer turned around to the right.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Fantastic caricature by Tom Lalor from 1917 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000232809
Karin Joy Passmore
Beautiful wool, truly wool, coat!!
oaktree_brian_1976
1922: Dead Dublin, a city of Fears and Tears. per Mr. Robinson.The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]), 29 Sept. 1922. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1922-09-29/ed-.... He was still popular well into 1930s America, Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.), 12 Jan. 1936. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1936-01-12/ed-...