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Rare: Footage of Michael Collins on the election trail
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The "concentration camp" for Sinn Fein prisoners of war
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Queen Victoria draws huge crowds with visit in 1900
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A beaming Dickie Rock at his wedding in 1966!
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Women gaze at the wreckage of their homes after German planes bombed the North Strand in Dublin in 1942
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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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Published
February 5, 2010
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mandokeith | Jun 11, 2010, 04:34 PM EDT
I don't know about the children, but the zebra looks familliar.....
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CullenAbroad | Apr 04, 2010, 09:05 PM EDT
My parents told me all about this - we lived just off the North Strand. This was an accidental bombing by the Germans, who apologized for it later I believe.
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CullenAbroad | Apr 04, 2010, 09:04 PM EDT
A grand Cabra lad indeed! Fair play to ya Dickie.
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CullenAbroad | Apr 04, 2010, 09:03 PM EDT
Michael Collins - My hero.
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adfloatj23 | Mar 31, 2010, 09:07 AM EDT
Are there any other photos of other sites where the Germans had bombed, I was quite surprised that Ireland was bombed at all,I would have thought that it would have been England that had dropped bombs on Ireland,Great Job showing these photos.
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kickstar | Mar 21, 2010, 04:23 PM EDT
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.
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kickstar | 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.
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dubslaine | Feb 22, 2010, 05:57 PM EST
I was there as a young Red Cross trainee
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eileenkny | 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!
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hchriste | Feb 10, 2010, 07:27 PM EST
cool
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torbreezy | 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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Betty Walters | Feb 10, 2010, 09:31 AM EST
Great photos. It is wonderful that you have discovered history of Ireland. I did not know that Dublin was bombed by the Germans during WWII.
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luckysusan | Feb 09, 2010, 11:19 AM EST
Hope to see more of these treasures from the past.
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fegus123 | Feb 08, 2010, 04:48 PM EST
fabulous
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One of the greatest irishmen of all time!
Posted by mandokeith on June 11,2010 | 01:34PM
I don't know about the children, but the zebra looks familliar.....
Posted by on April 4,2010 | 06:05PM
My parents told me all about this - we lived just off the North Strand. This was an accidental bombing by the Germans, who apologized for it later I believe.
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