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Anybody from N. Cork with relatives that fought in the war of Indendance? pic inside

  • 29-11-2010 3:50am
    #1
    harmoniums
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭


    So I just bought this on ebay

    !B9tW7U!BWk~$(KGrHqEOKicEzP9,yYK+BM6ly1)eYg~~_3.JPG

    here's the names:

    %21B9tWlf%21EGk%7E$%28KGrHqEOKp%21Ey+jC0RYFBM6l%29iYF7%21%7E%7E_3.JPG


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  • #2
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    Isn't this likely to be the Civil War rather than the War of Independence?
    Going by the date?


  • #3
    harmoniums
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭harmoniums


    Rodin wrote: »
    Isn't this likely to be the Civil War rather than the War of Independence?
    Going by the date?

    It was actually painted in 1921, during the cease fire.


  • #4
    Rodin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,130 ✭✭✭Rodin


    Why then does it say 1922 on it?


  • #5
    harmoniums
    Registered Users Posts: 533 ✭✭✭harmoniums


    Rodin wrote: »
    Why then does it say 1922 on it?

    I don't know, maybe he finished it then, but seemingly he had the volunteers come up to his studio in Dublin to sit for him during the late summer of 1921 when they were able to travel unimpeded .

    quote :

    Men of the South represents Keating at the peak of his attachment to nationalist themes. It depicts, in heroic mould, a 'flying column', apparently ready to ambush a passing military vehicle during Ireland's War of Independance. It was painted from sketches and photographs which Keating made of revolutionaries invited to sit for him, a situation made possible by the truce from the summer to the winter of 1921. During this period, members of the North Cork Batallion of the IRA, including Commt Mick O'Sullivan, were able to travel to Dublin, where they sat for Keating in his studio at the Metropolitan School of Art. It appears that porters there were drawn from the Crown forces, who were, terrified to encounter there sitters, armed with their rifles wrapped in brown paper.


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