Desmond FitzGerald Photographs


This collection of photographic prints forms part of the papers of Desmond FitzGerald (P80). The majority of theses photographs arise out of the Civil War but other smaller series relate to the aftermath of the Easter Rising and to the War of Independence. There are also other series of army portraits and of historical occasions photographs.

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Irish Free State Army soldiers carrying a coffin draped in the tricolour along the wet street of a country town


Photograph by W.D. Hogan of four Irish Free State Army soldiers carrying a coffin draped in the tricolour along the wet Main Street of Bruff, Co. Limerick; five other men in army overcoats but wearing soft caps flank the coffin carrying rifles at the reverse; buildings and cars are visible in the background. Possibly taken following the siege of Bruff in 1922.

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