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Against King and Country: Glimpse of life in the Irish Defence Force is revealed in unseen photographs taken towards the end of British rule
Previously-unseen photographs from a soldier documenting the Irish hostilities of the 1920s have come to light a century later, including a chilling image of a man standing in front of a firing squad. The album of 200 images taken in 1921 and 1922 belonged to Private Dermot Foley, of the Irish Defence Force, with other pictures showing 'Black and Tan' search parties, a prisoner with a bayonet pointed at him and street parades. The six members of the firing squad are pointing their weapons at an unknown IRA Irish revolutionary fighter, who is stood with his arms folded. The caption simply states: 'Firing squad - execution of a prisoner, Cork 1922.' Private Foley joined up aged 17 to fight the British and his records say he was 'honest, sober, industrious and of very good character'. After leaving the army in 1927, he emigrated to the US on White Star Line's RMS Baltic. He settled in Chicago working for the Bell Telephone Company, and his archive also contains postcards of Irish revolutionary soldier and politician Michael Collins, a leading figure in the Irish independence struggle. After passing down several generations of his family, it is now being sold by auctioneers Bonhams with a guide price of £800 to £1,200 at auction in London's Knightsbridge tomorrow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989599/Glimpse-life-Irish-Defence-Force-revealed-photographs.html
Previously-unseen photographs from a soldier documenting the Irish hostilities of the 1920s have come to light a century later, including a chilling image of a man standing in front of a firing squad. The album of 200 images taken in 1921 and 1922 belonged to Private Dermot Foley, of the Irish Defence Force, with other pictures showing 'Black and Tan' search parties, a prisoner with a bayonet pointed at him and street parades. The six members of the firing squad are pointing their weapons at an unknown IRA Irish revolutionary fighter, who is stood with his arms folded. The caption simply states: 'Firing squad - execution of a prisoner, Cork 1922.' Private Foley joined up aged 17 to fight the British and his records say he was 'honest, sober, industrious and of very good character'. After leaving the army in 1927, he emigrated to the US on White Star Line's RMS Baltic. He settled in Chicago working for the Bell Telephone Company, and his archive also contains postcards of Irish revolutionary soldier and politician Michael Collins, a leading figure in the Irish independence struggle. After passing down several generations of his family, it is now being sold by auctioneers Bonhams with a guide price of £800 to £1,200 at auction in London's Knightsbridge tomorrow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9989599/Glimpse-life-Irish-Defence-Force-revealed-photographs.html
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