Sean MacEntee by Poole
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A photograph that could have come from three Collections! Taken by AH Poole of Waterford, a prominent politician and Government Minister and here appearing in the Irish Personalities Collection.
Photographers: Various
Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1920 - 1940
NLI Ref: NPA PERS47
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Photographers: Various
Collection: Irish Personalities Photographic Collection
Date: Circa 1920 - 1940
NLI Ref: NPA PERS47
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CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_MacEntee
John Spooner
A later photo of Mr MacEntee which caused a storm in a teacup (The Sphere - Saturday 19 April 1952)
Niall McAuley
Wikipedia has this image on the Sean MacEntee article labelled "circa 1920s" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_MacEntee
Niall McAuley
NPA PERS48 is another angle, same day
Niall McAuley
There are two undigitized images in the Poole catalogue (using spelling McEntee): POOLED 5196 POOLED 5195 dated 1917-18
Niall McAuley
For that period, that above wikipedia article says: He mobilised in Dundalk and fought in the General Post Office Garrison in the Easter Rising in 1916. He was sentenced to death for his part in the rising. This sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. MacEntee was released in the general amnesty in 1917, and was later elected a member of the National Executives of both Sinn Féin and the Irish Volunteers in October 1917. MacEntee was later elected Sinn Féin Member of Parliament (MP) for Monaghan South at the 1918 general election. I would guess that these were taken for or after the election. In fact, I see that the Poole catalogue items are labelled Cover Image Cabinet commissioned by Mr. Sean McEntee M.P so after the election. More evidence on date: POOLED 5194 (undigitized) is titled Cabinet commissioned by Éamon de Valera M.P., Greystones. Dev lived in Greystones from October 1917, and was an MP from July 1917.
Niall McAuley
I wonder what the badge is? https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] might know? Looks kind of Irish Volunteersy
RETRO STU
Thanks Niall and I agree. Does have the outline but unable to see any more details from the photo, even when enlarged. An Irish Volunteers' badge or an Irish Volunteers Brigade badge? Stuart.
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected] Well done.
Niall McAuley
If the shot is after the election (as the MP title suggests), the election was on 14th December 1918 - very tight window for this shot to be 1918. We did previously have a Poole of Eamon de Valera MP from 1918, but he was elected in July 1917 in a by-election:
Niall McAuley
From Jan 1919, the lads started calling themselves TDs instead of MPs, so I think these shots are not too long after the election.
Niall McAuley
If this is 1918 or early 1919, MacEntee was 28. Here he is aged 11 in Belfast in the 1901 census and in 1911 as Gaeilge
Niall McAuley
Record of his birth, 23rd August 1889, and marriage to Margaret Brown 18th June 1921. His death in 1984 is too recent for online records.
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N.L.I. are you aware of these photos? www.flickr.com/photos/merrionstreet-ie/