The Wilsons

This is a Dr and Mrs Wilson, in 1898. Most likely of Blackrock, Co Dublin. The photo was taken by Richard Roe...but apart from that?

Trinity girls.

The ladies hockey team of Trinity College Dublin, 1929-30. The names of individuals are available.

Thornhill

Muriel Thornhill of Malahide, County Dublin. She was born in 1891. Further genealogical information is available.

Reeves

Samuel George Reeves of Dublin. A dentist, he wears regalia of the Masonic Order. Further genealogical information is available.

Banks family

 Florence Banks of Dublin. More details available

Mulvany family

The Mulvany family of Dolphins Barn, Dublin. The woman peering through the bushes (behind the older lady) was to be the grandmother of the Irish poet Richard Murphy. You saw it here first !

John Redmond

A member of the RIC, further info is available

Semple relatives?

Two portraits found in same batch as posting (Patrick Semple) below. One on left inscribed on back 'Aunt May', the other 'Mummy'. Any info contact

...and info comes in (4/9/2011) to the effect that these are May (with mortar board) and Frances Kennedy. And that Frances was mother of Patrick Semple mentioned below. (Info from daughters of Patrick Semple).

Patrick Semple

A photo found in a Dublin antique dealer's recently. On back in pencil written 'Patrick Semple'. Anyone with any ideas contact.

Patrick Semple contacts to tell that this "is quite likely to be Patrick Semple who was Professor of Classics at the Old Royal University of Ireland that became UCD.
There is a photograph in Ellman's biography of James Joyce in which he and Joyce along with a few others appear."

(4.9.2011) And indeed there is, another  reader sends in a copy. Semple standing on extreme right, James Joyce standing second left.

(The Dictionary of Ulster Biography  has a ref to Patrick Semple. )