British soldiers at the junction of Moore Street and Parnell Street (top) and not, as we claimed in our Google StreetView reconstruction, Henry Street (above).
Mark Humphrys writes:
“Your graphic (above) on this page: is wrong. It shows the 1916 Rising barricade at the wrong end of Moore St, as I explain on my site here..”
Sorry Mark and all.
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Still, hats off to the muppet who thought the British built a barricade with their backs to the GPO. That takes some doing.
well, in fairness, the British thought there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Yay! Helen/Anna the pretend lady is back!
Pretend lady? It’s ‘trans woman’ you ignoramus!
I believe the alternate term you are looking for is ‘man’, you insensitive dolt.
now now. lets keep it civil. The British army werent all as spit and polished as you might have thought they were;
‘Nearly two hundred of them were killed and many wounded,’ wrote J. E. Wrench afterwards. ‘ It always seemed to me such a wanton waste of life, though we tried to explain to them as well as we could the geography of the streets in that part of Dublin and what they might expect’.
https://www.facebook.com/TheIrishStory/posts/571809429519121
That and the buildings not matching at ALL.
The original post was on April Fools Day 2013 ….gettin’ some leg outta that one Broadsheet ! :)
It’s nice to see a picture of those fine upstanding men prepared to risk their lives for King and country against the terrorists who were threatening the kingdom
+1 Sure we all went mad altogether.
Heh.
….took a minute, to spot the name :)
That’d be the very same Mark Humphrys alright.
Those would be the guys who shot down the Dillon family when they came out of their home on Moore Street waving a white flag, then?