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From Flickr: “Standing still for history” by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →

From Flickr: “Standing still for history” by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →

From Flickr: “Standing still for history” by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →

From Flickr: “Standing still for history” by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →

From Flickr: “Standing still for history” by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

Another Hogan-Wilson photo today, with a group of Free State soldiers and civilians posing to record history in the making. Almost certainly taken during the Irish Civil War, the chicken wire on the doors and windows behind them was intended to deflect grenades thrown by passing irregulars! Today is the Read More →

From Flickr: “Rebels, irregulars, a flying column…” by National Library of Ireland on The Commons

This image of a group of armed men was commissioned by a Captain McGrath from Mr. Poole in 1923. My first impression of it was that they were very well armed which made it unlikely to have been taken before 1922 and they are very well turned out for men Read More →

From Flickr: “Exhibition Park Railway Station (G.T.R.), east of C.N.E. Dufferin St. gate.” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

Soldiers from Toronto shipping out to fight in WWI. These young men are getting ready to catch a train on the old Grand Trunk Railway at the Exhibition Park station, in 1915. Many did not return. In the First World War alone, there were more than 37 million military and Read More →