![[National Army soldiers searching through the remains of a fire at the Rotunda Rink, Parnell Square, the sorting office of the General Post Office, Dublin]](/IIIF/000200000/000194444/vtls000194444_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[National Army soldiers searching through the remains of a fire at the Rotunda Rink, Parnell Square, the sorting office of the General Post Office, Dublin]
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| In collection: | Hogan Photographic Collection. |
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Sunday, 5th November 1922.
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| Notes: | Account from the Irish Times, Monday 6th November 1922: ''The Rotunda Rink Post Office, Dublin, was destroyed by fire yesterday morning. At about 6.40 o'clock armed men compelled a watchman to admit them at the western gate. The officials on duty were ordered into a small room, and later were escorted into Lower Dominick street, when they were instructed to walk towards the Broadstone Station. In the meanwhile, other men entered the Rink with tins of petrol, with which they saturated the floors, and, when their preparations were complete, set the place on fire. Within an hour, despite the efforts of the fire brigade to extinguish the flames, the Rink was a mass of smouldering ashes and twisted ironwork. The destruction of the Rink has resulted in the loss of a great quantity of correspondence. There will be only two deliveries in the city today, but to-morrow there will be three. The postal authorities, apparently, intend to use Banba Hall as a temporary sorting office.'' Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6314582749 Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 15 x 21 cm. more |
