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When: 01 January 1940
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We can understand that you are all exhausted after having to work over the weekend, but we have a personalities shot for you this morning that may re-energise you? (from left) Florrie McCarthy, Joe Clarke, and Eithne Coyle pose outside a window and with a plaque or mural to the side?
+++ UPDATE +++
The location defeated us (for now), but not no. 6 Harcourt Street. And Wikipedia provided us with good-ish biogs of Irish republican activists Joe Clarke and Eithne Coyle. Florrie McCarthy remains elusive however, so any information would be welcomed with open arms...
Photographers: Various
Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection
Date: ca. 1930-1976
NLI Ref: NPA PERS81
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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+++ UPDATE +++
The location defeated us (for now), but not no. 6 Harcourt Street. And Wikipedia provided us with good-ish biogs of Irish republican activists Joe Clarke and Eithne Coyle. Florrie McCarthy remains elusive however, so any information would be welcomed with open arms...
Photographers: Various
Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection
Date: ca. 1930-1976
NLI Ref: NPA PERS81
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
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ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
An aside which might interest Flickroonies ... A colourised and restored photo of "Two Boys, Templemore 1854" has resulted in this wonderful story from "Sean" @poetsoup on Twitter - twitter.com/poetsoup/status/1264598216378646528 Or easier to read here - threadreaderapp.com/thread/1264598216378646528.html And some details about the photo from [https://www.flickr.com/photos/184989170@N06] - twitter.com/irelandincolour/status/1256971192881352704
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Why would you put your books in a window, spine out? Unless it is a bookshop ...
abandoned railways
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Clarke_(Irish_republican)
Foxglove
wiki also had a history of eithne coyle and additional photos, Florence McCarthy has a lower profile.
abandoned railways
www.google.ie/maps/@53.3371394,-6.2630258,3a,48.4y,284.03... No. 6 Harcourt St, office of the Sinn Féin Bank 1910–21 is now a book shop.
oldirelandincolour
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Thank you! 💚
Domhnallcos
6 Harcourt st is the HQ of Conradh na Gaeilge, and the shop is An Siopa Leabhar.
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia Not much of a display for a bookshop, perhaps rear of building?
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/abandonedrailsireland] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/137381740@N08] Clarke had a long association with No. 6, even living there with his family at one point www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/cradle-of-th... He founded the Irish Book Bureau which was based there. If it is No.6, then it must be the rear, as street side is over basement.
mcginley2012
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eithne_Coyle?fbclid=IwAR3tvDUSZIF...
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Possibly outside in the basement, which still has the old-style windows? A tight fit with four people and the iron stairs. There are reflections of trees in the old glass ... You can go inside if you remember to wipe your feet! - goo.gl/maps/JSu1xoTpxa5qGurv6
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Is that a wedding ring on Eithne Coyle's (1897 - 1985) middle finger? From wiki, "She married Bernard O'Donnell, a Donegal IRA man, in 1935." She was quite a character.
Foxglove
beachcomber... yes, from the wiki photo of eithne coyle you could see she was very relaxed with a rifle ! one of her colleagues Linda Kearns was also "quite a character"
Bernard Healy
1. I'm not convinced by the identification of the location as 6 Harcourt Street. It doesn't look like the front, and I have my doubts about it being the back as 6 Harcourt Street seems to be constructed of small red bricks, whereas this seems to be made of larger blocks. 2. I've tried to see if I can read any of the items on the window. One book/periodical seems to be The Catholic (?) Bulletin which was published from 1911 until 1939 & was an organ of nationalist/republican thought. I'm sure some of you know more about it and its significance. I'll add that the cover looks something like the style used by that publication in the 1930s, but I don't know enough to put any solid limits on the dating.
Dr. Ilia
great capture
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardhealy Agree with you, Bernard. Not Harcourt Street.
Bernard Healy
Re: Florrie McCarthy - presume she's the same Florence McCarthy who was active in Cumann na mBan: findingaids.nationalarchives.ie/index.php?browse=true&... Memorandum circulated by the Department of Justice, 16 May 1929, relating to a proposed assassination of a trial witness by the Irregulars, an event which did not happen. In April 1928 Miss Florence McCarthy, a member of Cumann na mBan was charged with embracery and other offences. Mr Armstrong of Armstrong and Ramsay, Chartered Accountants, gave evidence on the embracery charges and subsequently was informed that his life was in danger. However, due to the `faintheartedness' of one member of the assassination team the death threat on him was removed. (Embracery means intimidating a juror, seemingly.) Also a mention here: humphrysfamilytree.com/Mangan/john.html And here: www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1929-04-24/11/ There are a few other scattered records of her, but I can't find a decent biographical sketch. And see this photo - not online, alas! catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000757166/HierarchyTree