![[Car and carts outside Farrell's Carriage and Funeral Establishment, Marlborough Street, Dublin]](/IIIF/000210000/000207019/vtls000207019_001.jp2/full/800,/0/default.jpg)
[Car and carts outside Farrell's Carriage and Funeral Establishment, Marlborough Street, Dublin]
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| In collection: | Hogan Photographic Collection. |
| Format: | Photo |
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June or July 1922.
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| Notes: | Research by our Flickr Commons users established the location of this photograph at Marlborough Street, Dublin, and narrowed the date to June or July 1922. Research by our Flickr Commons users established that W.D. Hogan took this photograph from the corner of Upper Gloucester Street (now Sean McDermott Street), looking south and down Marlborough Street, Dublin - probably in late June or very early July 1922. The business pictured behind the barricade, Farrell's Undertakers, was at 66 Marlborough Street. Immediately to the right, behind the wall and gate, was St Thomas's Church. This barricade was placed by anti-treaty Irregulars during the 'Battle of Dublin' in the Irish Civil War. The church and much of the surrounding area was burned in early July 1922. In the decade after the Civil War, the ruins were demolished, and the streets relaid to a slightly different pattern. The street is no longer the 'T-junction' shown here, and runs straight 'through' the wall and old church graveyard. A new St Thomas's Church was however built very close by in 1930 - over what was the parish hall on Findlater Place... Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/38919259014/ Physical description: 1 photographic print ; 11 x 16 cm. more |
Our first visit to the Hogan-Wilson for this year, and an intriguing image of cars, carts and carriages across the entrance to a street as some form of barricade. The name on the premises behind may assist in a location but what was going on and why the blockage? (FYI - It was great to see the response to yesterdays image with that wonderful poster proving its worth more than 100 years after it was posted!)
And we had fantastic inputs on today's image also. There is clear consensus that Hogan took this image from the corner of Upper Gloucester Street (now Sean McDermott Street), looking south and down Marlborough Street. Probably in late June or very early July 1922. The business pictured behind the barricade, Farrell's Undertakers, was at 66 Marlborough Street. Immediately to the right, behind the wall and gate, was St Thomas' Church. This barricade was placed by anti-treaty irregulars during the 'Battle of Dublin' of the Irish Civil War. The church and much of the surrounding area was burned in early July 1922. In the decade after the civil war, the ruins were demolished, and the streets relaid to a sligtly different pattern. (The street is no longer the 'T-junction' we see here, and runs straight 'through' the wall and old church graveyard). A new St Thomas' Church was however built very closeby in 1930 - over what was the parish hall on Findlater Place....
Photographer: W. D. Hogan
Collection: Hogan Wilson Collection
Date: Catalogue range c.1922. Likely June/July 1922
NLI Ref.: HOG144
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
Hogan-Wilson Collection, National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, barricade, motor car, carts, drays, street, gate, buildings, Upper Gloucester Street, Sean McDermott Street, Marlborough Street, Irish Civil War, Truck, Cart, Undertakers, Farrell, B. Farrell, St Thomas Church, Dublin, Bridget Farrell, William David Hogan, W.D. Hogan
Comments
Carol Maddock
Love when this happens! We have a copy of that EASTER WEEK REPEATS ITSELF poster here at Library Towers, so deffo 1922... :)
Posted: 11.01.2018
domenico milella
Congratulation for your beautiful Album.
Posted: 11.01.2018
Carol Maddock
There's a Peter Farrell, job coach and undertaker establishment at 66 Marlborough Street (also 49-52 Corporation Street) in Thom's Directory, 1922.
Posted: 11.01.2018
Rory_Sherlock
Could this photo be taken from Upper Gloucester Street (now Sean McDermott Street) with Marlborough Street extending southwards behind the barricade and St Thomas's Church out of sight behind the railings and the disused graveyard out of sight behind the curving wall?
maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V2,715905,734970,12,9
Posted: 11.01.2018
Niall McAuley
The gate at left of this archive drawing of the front of St. Thomas's looks exactly like the gate pictured here.
Posted: 11.01.2018
Niall McAuley
If so, there is not a brick left standing today.
Posted: 11.01.2018
Niall McAuley
St. Thomas's was completely destroyed in the 1922 fires, see archiseek on the replacement.
Posted: 11.01.2018
John Spooner
Farrell had telephone 711, according to the advert which regularly appeared in the Dublin Evening Telegraph (just under the deaths and in memoriam announcements).
Posted: 11.01.2018
guliolopez
I completely concur on location. Seems unequivocal that Hogan was standing on Upper Gloucester (Sean Macdermott) Street, looking S/SW across Marlborough Street. If [https://www.flickr.com/photos/47297387@N03]'s directory listing, [https://www.flickr.com/photos/139877639@N08]'s map of the curved wall, and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley]'s gate illustration weren't enough, Thom's Directory describes this stretch of Marlborough Street. Matching what we see. It places St Thomas' church directly south of Gregg's Lane, and Farrell's directly south of the church. It also suggests that the "B" in "B Farrell" was Bridget Farrell. Whose business also has a presence on nearby Mabbot Lane.
Posted: 11.01.2018
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Aux barricades, citoyens!
It must have been very early in July 1922, as this 4/7/1922 article via Trove talks of the "rebels" being driven into a congested area bordered by Sackville, Marlborough, and Parnell Square - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/16011218
And surrendering the Parcels Office in Marlborough St by 8 July - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/159056973
In flames by 5 July according to this book, with a bit of the historical context (which I do not understand, to my shame!) - books.google.com.au/books?id=BO34AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT210&am...
Posted: 11.01.2018
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Amazing stuff - Thanks so much everyone! I have attempted to summarise the detail, and have updated the map, description and date.
A bit sad to have to add this to the "no longer standing" album - but a fascinating insight into the events that framed the modern city....
Posted: 11.01.2018
oaktree_brian_1976
Poster to the left of the door says "Easter Week repeats itself", I can't read the ones on the other side. One to the immediate right of the door seems to say Kilkenny, one next to it says "citizenship" at the bottom
Posted: 12.01.2018
Architecture of Dublin
A very detailed look at the two St. Thomas's Churches (the older photographed here) from the Irish Architectural Archive
www.iarc.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IAA-1916-ART-15.pdf
[en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Thomas%27s_Church_(old),_Dublin]
Posted: 20.07.2020
Architecture of Dublin
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/186395973@N06/51253229293/in/dateposted-public/]
Posted: 17.06.2021
