Inspection of Irish Guards, Warley / 17 March 1916
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| Summary: | John Redmond with King George V and Queen Mary at Warley Barracks, outside red-bricked building, half-length portrait. |
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| In collection: | Redmond Family Photographic Collection |
| Format: | Photo |
| Language: | English |
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1916 March 17
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| Notes: | Title inscribed on verso. Additional information about this photograph is available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/53532257106/ Physical description: 1 postcard : in mylar, in phase box. b&w ; 8.8 x 14 cm cm ; more |
| Arrangement: | Item |
The title of this image states that it was taken at the Inspection of the Irish Guards at Warley in 1916. Taken when John Redmond was full of hope that there would be real progress in obtaining Home Rule for Ireland now that he and the National Volunteers had agreed to take part in the Great War. Just a short few weeks later all that was to change as, in the words of the poet, A Terrible Beauty was born.
Photographers: Various
Collection: Redmond Family Photographic Collection
Date: 17th March 1916
NLI Ref: NPA RED11
You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie
Tags:
20th Century, National Library of Ireland, National Photographic Archive, Redmond family Photographic Collection, Waterford, John Redmond NP, National Leader, King George, Queen Mary, Inspection of Irish Guards, Warley, St. Patricks Day 1916
Comments
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
17 March 1916 was a Friday . . .
Posted: 16.02.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Queen Mary's shamrock brooch -
"One of my favorite royal shamrock jewels, Queen Mary’s Emerald Shamrock Brooch, now belongs to Prince and Princess Michael of Kent. The jewel was likely one of Mary’s wedding gifts, perhaps the trefoil brooch offered to her by the Royal St George Yacht Club in Dublin. The brooch was later passed along to Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and then to her younger son."
From - www.thecourtjeweller.com/2020/03/royal-shamrock-brooches....
Posted: 16.02.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] I think we might require a horizontal flip (as the actress said to the bishop). The King's medals, the Queen's brooch, Mr Redmond's coat etc.
Posted: 16.02.2024
John Spooner
Illustrated London News - Saturday 25 March 1916:
Posted: 16.02.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Read All About It! Via Trove (column 2, over half way down) - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/151748688?searchTerm=k...
" ... It was not for nothing that the Queen presented Mr. John Redmond, the only civilian on the Royal platform, with a sprig of shamrock, and not for nothing that he placed it in his buttonhole instead of the little green bunch that he was already wearing. ..."
Posted: 16.02.2024
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Flippin' thank you!
Posted: 16.02.2024
O Mac
More photos taken at Warley Barracks the same day.
www.rct.uk/collection/search#/4/collection/2303760/page-5...
Posted: 16.02.2024
Foxglove
one of the later photos in the link above appears to show a party for the wounded, the uniforms appear to be Irish / National volunteers in soft bush hats with one side raised
Posted: 16.02.2024
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] We have seen that shamrock before.
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/26605203954]
Is it the same one?
Posted: 16.02.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Got to be! But a girl can never have too many shamrock accessorries.
Posted: 16.02.2024
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] And under that pic, we supposed that the brooch might be a wedding gift from Sir Frederick and Lady Milner, although it says four leafed rather than 3. Now with Princess Michael of Kent.
Posted: 16.02.2024
Niall McAuley
Not much left of Warley Barracks, Brentwood, I think. Per wikipedia: The chapel, the officers' mess (now Marillac Nursing Home) and one of the regimental gyms (Keys Hall) remain.
Posted: 16.02.2024
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
More brooch research (2019) - mb.boardhost.com/historyroyaljewels/thread/1553935854.html
Posted: 16.02.2024
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] I see a comment where they say that the emeralds may have been changed after Queen Marys demise.
Posted: 16.02.2024
Niall McAuley
Worn by Lady Gabriella Kingston to the recent Coronation, daughter of Princess Michael of Kent.
Posted: 16.02.2024
Niall McAuley
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/foxglove] Those wounded pics are from a tea party at the Royal Mews Buckingham Palace if I read them correctly.
I don't see any refs to Irish Volunteers wearing slouch hats, but they were worn by various British regiments in hot places, I see shots for example from Salonika.
Posted: 16.02.2024
suckindeesel
He suffered ill health due to heavy smoking and at the time of his death, in his doctor’s own words:
“At about 11 o'clock it was evident that the last stage might endure for many hours, unknown to the Patient but little comporting with that dignity and serenity which he so richly merited and which demanded a brief final scene. Hours of waiting just for the mechanical end when all that is really life has departed only exhausts the onlookers & keeps them so strained that they cannot avail themselves of the solace of thought, communion or prayer. I therefore decided to determine the end and injected (myself) morphia gr.3/4 [grains] and shortly afterwards cocaine gr.1 [grains] into the distended jugular vein ... In about 1/4 an hour – breathing quieter – appearance more placid – physical struggle gone.”
This was timed so that his death could be reported by the ‘quality’ papers such as the The Times the following morning, rather than the evening rags.
Posted: 16.02.2024
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
Posted: 18.02.2024
