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Very early footage of Dublin Zoo. Pathe wants to know if anyone knows who the children are.
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February 5, 2010
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Posted by kickstar on Mar 21, 2010, 04:23 PM EDTWhen it came to the fighting of the war of independence their never can be anyone Greater than the Big Fella, His methods have been copied and replicated by those struggling for Nationhood World Wide, If proof were needed to the effectiveness of the intelligence gathering capabilities and systems that Michael Collins developed and set up in the war of Independence against the British and their agents particularly the Tans .
However the attitude of Sinn Fein Especially Devalera to the Ratification of the Treaty that Collins helped Negotiate and his awareness of what was on the table may certainly have Soured Collins personality, They say that after he became a plenipotentiary the wrestling and boyish jokes he was so famous for ended, maybe the exposure to the Great and famous of his day in England may have given him a different outlook, perhaps we will never know, But a lot of Gun slinging began with the Civil War, There is a famous picture of Collins in rather dusty Generals uniform followed by a young drummer boy, Collins has a Webley revolver in holster swinging and hanging low on his thigh, Certainly not where an Army officer would carry a firearm and be considered to be in Uniform maybe not Par Excellence in Military dress code but certainly a fearless soldier of Ireland, Until it all changed, I think if he had survived Collins to say the least would have been quite persuasive in promoting his own ideas. Certainly the long fellow Dev was as repressive as any Generalissimo Franco and even Jailed and interned his former associates when he achieved power, Michael Collins had a Passion for sure he had a Good Heart too I think, he had great respect for the elderly, we will never know what his Ireland would have looked like had he lived out a normal life, But the civil war experience would make me reticent about elevating him to sainthood just yet.
Posted by kickstar on Mar 21, 2010, 03:28 PM EDT
My earliest memory of a visit to the Zoo was the fishy smelling dirty looking Penguins and watching monkeys throwing their feces at each other....Never could bring myself to supporting any organ that keeps wild Animals/Birds or Marine Mammals as prisoners from their natural Environment.
Posted by dubslaine on Feb 22, 2010, 05:57 PM EST
I was there as a young Red Cross trainee
Posted by eileenkny on Feb 11, 2010, 07:51 AM EST
Thanks to Pathe for releasing this footage. You can feel Michael Collins' passion-just look at his body language-he's practically leaping off the stage!
Posted by hchriste on Feb 10, 2010, 07:27 PM EST
cool
Posted by torbreezy on Feb 10, 2010, 11:51 AM EST
That could very well have been the event that my father witnessed first hand as a young boy. Countless were the times my Dad told of his having been at the back of a large throng listening to Michael Collins and his having been passed aloft to the front of the crowd where he shook the hand of the "Big Fella".
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Posted by kickstar on March 21,2010 | 01:23PM
When it came to the fighting of the war of independence their never can be anyone Greater than the Big Fella, His methods have been copied and replicated by those struggling for Nationhood World Wide, If proof were needed to the effectiveness of the intelligence gathering capabilities and systems that Michael Collins developed and set up in the war of Independence against the British and their agents particularly the Tans .
However the attitude of Sinn Fein Especially Devalera to the Ratification of the Treaty that Collins helped Negotiate and his awareness of what was on the table may certainly have Soured Collins personality, They say that after he became a plenipotentiary the wrestling and boyish jokes he was so famous for ended, maybe the exposure to the Great and famous of his day in England may have given him a different outlook, perhaps we will never know, But a lot of Gun slinging began with the Civil War, There is a famous picture of Collins in rather dusty Generals uniform followed by a young drummer boy, Collins has a Webley revolver in holster swinging and hanging low on his thigh, Certainly not where an Army officer would carry a firearm and be considered to be in Uniform maybe not Par Excellence in Military dress code but certainly a fearless soldier of Ireland, Until it all changed, I think if he had survived Collins to say the least would have been quite persuasive in promoting his own ideas. Certainly the long fellow Dev was as repressive as any Generalissimo Franco and even Jailed and interned his former associates when he achieved power, Michael Collins had a Passion for sure he had a Good Heart too I think, he had great respect for the elderly, we will never know what his Ireland would have looked like had he lived out a normal life, But the civil war experience would make me reticent about elevating him to sainthood just yet.
Posted by kickstar on March 21,2010 | 12:28PM
My earliest memory of a visit to the Zoo was the fishy smelling dirty looking Penguins and watching monkeys throwing their feces at each other....Never could bring myself to supporting any organ that keeps wild Animals/Birds or Marine Mammals as prisoners from their natural Environment.
Posted by dubslaine on February 22,2010 | 02:57PM
I was there as a young Red Cross trainee
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