A fire in the night makes a street urchin’s delight...
Love this? Please support us and...
More from this collection
Related by When
Related by Where
Research Help!
Where: Leinster, Ireland
Try to find the spot where the photographer was standing.
When: Unknown
Try to find the date or year when this image was made.
A little bit of photo journalism from Mr. Chandler for today’s image provides us with a street scene. A fire brigade with hoses and ladders deployed, accompanied by a crowd of people entering a building and just hanging around. One barefoot boy stands with what looks like a squash racket in his hand which may have been “liberated” from the affected building. When, where, what, and how come to mind??
Photographers: Edward C. Chandler
Collection: Edward C Chandler Photographic Collection
Date: Undated
NLI Ref: NPA CHA12
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Source: Flickr Commons
Views: 17039
Photographers: Edward C. Chandler
Collection: Edward C Chandler Photographic Collection
Date: Undated
NLI Ref: NPA CHA12
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Info:
Owner: National Library of Ireland on The CommonsSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 17039
edwardcchandlerphotographiccollection
nationallibraryofireland
photographicarchive
edwardcchandler
streetscene
fire
building
dublinfirebrigade
hoses
ladder
urchins
looters
racket
barefoot
dublin
leinster
ireland
11parnellsquare
11parnellsquareeast
Add Tags
Add Tags
derangedlemur
I'll get my guess in early and then see if I can actually find it. Stephen's Green (South).
derangedlemur
When and how? The butler did it with a candlestick, at two in the morning.
Foxglove
I am working on the words in the broken window, also are some of the holes in the wall and defined holes in window from bullets ? yes, there may not be a dog (yet) but there are bare foot children
derangedlemur
Well, that was a miss, anyway.
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove It does look a bit shooty, alright.
derangedlemur
I've found this nice view of 124 Stephen's Green West in the archives. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000736334
derangedlemur
Is it this one on Parnell Square? goo.gl/maps/9oXxoz5L7qG91SHr9
Foxglove
yes, it looks like the Youth reach building
Carol Maddock
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02 By George, I think you’ve got it! I'm raging. I had been scouting around the wrong sides of Parnell Square.
derangedlemur
it seems to be Fowler Hall (10 Rutland Square) which was attacked during the civil war and set on fire.
Foxglove
have googled 10 Parnell sq, every other building seems to have trade union, IRB and misc cultural links .... but not No.10
derangedlemur
stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/image/0505/037.html
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove It was an Orange Lodge.
derangedlemur
www.historyireland.com/20th-century-contemporary-history/...
Foxglove
yes ! you smacked it down and the remaining letters "fow" and "mem" in the lintel window make sense now.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
From a different angle in 1915 - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/5997404467/
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Looks like it was Wednesday 28 June 1922 in the afternoon. Read All About It! via Trove - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/145845053 "... a fire broke out in Fowler Hall shortly after noon. One report stated that the rebels set fire to it. Snipers were firing from roofs, but it was difficult to ascertain to which side they belonged. Hundreds of spectators lined the quays and streets adjacent to the affected area, and business was suspended. ... ... The rebels seized Barry's Hotel and the Women's Trade Union Club and Orange Hall, and Regulars invested* both places. The fire brigade did excellent work. When Fowler Hall was set on fire they managed to quell the outbreak. ..." [* - "Invest - ARCHAIC - surround (a place) in order to besiege or blockade it."]
derangedlemur
I wonder, did the bit at the top of the lintel say something very loyal and orange or did it just fall off? I don't see anything in the photo.
suckindeesel
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] Whatever that bit on top of lintel was, It seems to have been since removed. Streetview goo.gl/maps/Q2Hu2g66yFt1aLrr8
John Spooner
Birmingham Daily Gazette pictured the conflagration before the fire brigade did its stuff
John Spooner
The eponymous Mr Fowler (Weekly Freeman's Journal - Sunday 16 July 1922)
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Mr Edward C. Chandler took another photo a little to the left; he seems (like the boys) to have been fascinated by 'AERIAL LADDER D' - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000671739/HierarchyTree
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Woohoo! And another from a different angle (near the church). Looks like there was a motor fire engine there too - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000671730/HierarchyTree Ed. The motor fire engine looks like the Dublin Leyland one spotted on a trip to Cork in 1920 - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/17156792989/]
cargeofg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia RI 2080 is listed as HM(Heavy Motor) and registered to Dublin Fire Brigade on the Lennonwylie website. I was struggling to make the number was it RI 209 or RI 208. RI 209 was missing from the list and RI 208 was listed as a car. But the RI list does run up in to the 1000s so checked on till it appeared.
suckindeesel
The Fowler Hall was the largest Orange Lodge in Dublin before being taken over by the IRA. It was used to house and feed refugees fleeing from the north. A large cache of rifles and ammo was found hidden in the basement during renovations in 1935. Initially thought to have been left behind by the IRA, it turned out that they were hidden there during the time of the Home Rule debates by a Loyalist group called the Loyal Dublin Volunteers (LDV). Presumably to be used against their fellow countrymen. "IN June 1935, a Dublin Board of Works employee was among a group working at part of the Dublin GPO (General Post Office), the men having been assigned to remove presses from the cellar of the GPO Customs Parcels Section, located at 10 Parnell Square. When several presses were removed however, some mortar appeared insecure, and when touched, collapsed. Upon further investigation the employee realised he had uncovered a large cavity several feet long. Within it, in perfectly dry conditions, lay a massive arms cache. He had discovered over 90 rifles and over 2000 rounds of ammunition." comeheretome.com/2013/05/28/an-interesting-1913-article-o...
suckindeesel
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove Yes, home to many TUs, including the former home of my old union. Many owe their origins to the pioneering work of Countess Markievicz, who encouraged activists in British based craft unions to establish the Irish Engineering, Shipbuilding and Foundry Trades Union. Of course, there were the inevitable splits later on, leading to more craft unions.
Architecture of Dublin
I'm guessing the boys gazing at events are from Belvedere College, which was abut a 150 metres away on Great Denmark Street. Scoil Mhuire (which was about 150 metres away on the North Side of Parnell Square) didn't move to the Parnell Square premises until 1933. Edit: they aren't wearing shoes so probably aren't from Belvedere College but does pose the question where did they get the raquet from
Architecture of Dublin
and here is a very similar photo of the same building from the BNF Gallica (the French national library) gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53084072v.r=dublin?rk=1866...