It was the start of an excellent lifelong friendship
That it brand of Men of Southern-nearly identical to the first which had languished unfinished when you look at the Sean Keating’s Rathfarnham business up until received because of the Douglas Hyde Collection when you look at the 1944-was purchased on the artist from the Albert Woods KC and you can given since a gift towards the author’s grandmother, Nora Moylan, who installed it on her behalf sitting-space wall structure. Work portrays several average dudes looking for a great: (front side, left to proper) Michael Sullivan, John Jones, Roger Kiely, Dan Brownish; (straight back, kept so you can correct) Jim O’Riordan, Denis O’Mullane, Jim Cashman and you will (which have binoculars) Sean Moylan. (Moylan household members)
The fresh new roots of men of your own South can be associated with an event with the 25 May 1921 anywhere between Albert Timber KC and you will the has just arrested Sean Moylan, commander of one’s second Northern Cork Brigade of one’s IRA. Moylan was charged of the an army legal having ‘arms out of palms and you may levying war contrary to the Crown’ and you can is actually towards demo for their life. Functioning round the clock, Albert Timber plus the teaching solicitor, Barry Sullivan off Mallow, effortlessly gotten good writ out of habeas corpus. This new death penalty is actually commuted to ten years’ penal servitude; because events ended up, by the August 1921 Moylan premiered by walking of the Truce. Years later on, Moylan recalled one his first effect regarding Wood is actually away from a great people of considerable exposure, ‘perfectly dressed and groomed with a feature you to appeared to be the latest quintessence out of Oxford’. (more…)