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Can you help?

This picture seems to date from c1907 and is a photograph of the pupils of the primary school in the park.

Would you have a copy with the names of the adult and the children in your possession?

We know the girl in the second row, third from the left is Cecilia Mahon/Duffy.

The teacher may be Miss Reidy, a local historian suggets.

We also believe that one of the girls married into the Odlum flour family and became a Mrs Odlum; but we don't know her first name or her name at school.

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Can you name the man standing on the left in this 1905 picture at the North Circular Road Gate Lodge?

The man on the right is dressed in regulation gatekeeper's uniform; but the man on the left seems to wear the hat of a constable or ranger.

The man on the right is gatekeeper Thomas James. Dolly, his wife, stands on the step with their son Jack James. The James family lived in the lodge.

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This picture we believe dates from 1937, some 30 years later than the top picture.
Can you name the faces for us?

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Brendan Nolan has reported on Phoenix Park as a freelance journalist for several decades and was a professional observer at many of the events of the late 20th century related herein.

He was born in Chapelizod in a house beside the churchyard of Le Fanu and counted Phoenix Park as his personal rambling ground through his growing years and beyond.