What on earth is going on in this picture? Anyone want to hazard a guess?
Are they celebrating the Fourth of July?
Honouring Dev’s American roots?
Cheering on the Super Bowl??
Dublin, "Children Sitting in the Street". Date unknown. © Bettmann/CORBIS
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WW1/2 VE/VJ day?
Thanks for the food parcels?
Celebrating VE Day? May 1945, perhaps…
End of one of the wars?
Sep 1949, main street Cavan town: celebrating Breffni’s SFC victory over the Kerrymen in the Pologrounds NY, US of A ;>
other than that it might be VJ Day 1945 which was more of a US campaign than an Allied one (note Maj Percivel of Cork WOI infamy and later Singapore)
That’s a 48 star US flag, which puts it after 1912. I’d say it’s probably a celebration of the US entry to either WWI or WWII… but probably WWI, just because it looks much earlier than 1941.
“That’s a 48 star US flag”
Nice spot!
Very doubtful if the US entry into WW2 was celebrated like this in Dublin: we weren’t on the best terms with them after that for a while. Might be WW1…are you sure it’s ‘Dublin, Ire-land’ as the Yanks would say? One of the kids has a soldier’s tin hat on.
“are you sure it’s ‘Dublin, Ire-land’”
I’m not but the caption says so, http://tinyurl.com/6g2g74p
Good question.
I would speculate that it was at the end of WW1.
The outfits (suits, pinafores and hats on women at back left) look more “Micheal Collins” than WW2.
The helmet on the young fella by the fire looks British or American WW1 too – maybe this picture was taken by an American soldier? It would explain where the kids got the flags.
I was trying to find out if there were ever American soldiers in Dublin after WW1. Bit of a leap, but I found this:
http://www.ourlibrary.ca/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=683
Apparently the S.S Millwater returned the remains of 60 (Irish) American soldiers to Ireland on Sunday, May 7th 1918.
Some of the kids look quite well-dressed. And the shops don’t look open. Could it have been taken on the Sunday the American soldiers arrived?
On the other hand, there were a lot of British soldiers in Dublin so I suppose the helmet could have come from them.
Wait, no, WW1 ended in November 1918. So during WW1 then.
/brain…dead
Look at the hair of the boys, especially the one standing on the right (with his mouth open). It’s quite long – which makes me thnk it’s later than 1918.
Maybe they’re about to burn the American flags in that fire. 🙂