1916 TIME TRAVEL
Aug 28th, 2012 by Conor McCabe
Trying to sort the files on my hard drives into something approaching coherence and came across this photo taken in the immediate aftermath of the 1916 rising with a man in contemporary dress in the middle of the shot. Not sure where I got it from but it’s from the web somewhere as it’s not a scanned image.
This shot is from the Easter 1991 issue of Iris.
http://cedarlounge.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/iris-1991.pdf
Thanks Kevin
I came across this image last year when I was working on the archaeology of the rebellion in the city and I wondered who this guy might have been. His attire is certainly unusual, he’s hatless and doesn’t appear to be wearing a tie. This places him well outside the normative dress of the period where distinctions between workers, administrators and bosses were well defined.
There is something of the military in his stance and jacket, however his choice of footwear is odd. He’s accompanied by an officer and two soldiers, presumably an escort? Standing at the back of the group, he appears shorter than he probably was. War corr or spook? An American attaché?
I’ll try and get the source; it’s not a common photo and my hard drive’s probably in a worse state than yours.
I was going to say that he was probably a sailor or off a boat or something.
Then I realised that that is what everyone in Back to the Future says about Marty McFly.
you know, it COULD be proof of time travel, only thing though, if it is it also proves that in the future - when time travel is invented - everyone shops in Guineys.
Theres a good facebook page with photos from 1916 mixed with present day photos to form a comparision. Dont think its from there though.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dublin-1916-Then-Now/199211606823958