Between The Wars Gallery

Preparations for the Easter (Dublin) Rising of 1916 Mary Spring Rice and Molly

Preparations for the Easter (Dublin) Rising of 1916
Mary Spring Rice and Molly Childers on the yacht Asgard bring guns from Germany to the Irish Volunteers, July 1914.
The box of ammunition is clearly marked Hamburg - the guns were sourced from Germany, Britain's oppoment in WW1
Asgard was Erskine Childers s last, and most famous, yacht: in June 1914 he used it to smuggle a cargo of 900 elderly but serviceable Mauser Model 1871 rifles and 29, 000 black powder cartridges to the Irish Volunteers movement at the fishing village of Howth, County Dublin (later known as the "Howth gun-running"). It was acquired by the Irish government as a sail training vessel in 1961, stored on dry land in the yard of Kilmainham Gaol in 1979, and finally became a static exhibit at The National Museum of Ireland in 2012. Topfoto stills library picture library stock archive vintage Ireland Irish Rebellion 1916

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Ras Tafari at the Tower of London. The Regent of Abyssinia paid a visit of inspection

Ras Tafari at the Tower of London.
The Regent of Abyssinia paid a visit of inspection to the Tower of London.
Ras Tafari photographed during his visit.
8 July 1924

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A close race at Brooklands. Crowds thronged the Brooklands track for the great

A close race at Brooklands.
Crowds thronged the Brooklands track for the great Easter Monday opening meeting when Sir Malcolm Campbell took out his Bluebird on the track.
Mr C Penn Hughes in his Bugatti and Mr E L Bouts in his Sunbeam ( nearest camera ) racing nexk and neck round the track in the Norfolk lightning short handicap race..
28 March 1932

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