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>Costume Studies
>>1916 Irish óglach
>>>context
>>>>primary sources
Subjectóglach 'volunteer' republican revolutionary
Culture: Catholic Irish
Setting: Irish revolution, Ireland 1910s-1920s



National Museum of Ireland -- Decorative Arts & History > Imaging Conflict: Photographs from revolutionary era Ireland 1913-1923 *
"Fakery at Vico Road  In 1920, the British authorities commissioned and published fake photographs of an alleged battle at Tralee, Co. Kerry, which resulted in significant success for the crown forces.  Captain Hugh Pollard and William Darling staged the battle scene in Killiney, Dublin, which was then widely circulated in newsreels and newspapers including Pathé and the Illustrated London News.
  This was perhaps the most blatant example of fake photography from the period." ...

* National Museum of Ireland -- Decorative Arts & History > Imaging Conflict: Photographs from revolutionary era Ireland 1913-1923
"Óglaigh na hÉireann 1914-1918 & Óglaigh na hÉireann 1919-1923"
"Irish Volunteers and Irish Republican Army, 1913-1922"