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  • Short Summary

    Lord Talbot (Earl Talbot) arrives in Ireland.

  • Description

    Lord Talbot.

    Nobility. Arrival of Lord Talbot (Earl Talbot) in Ireland (Kingstown / Dun Laoghaire).

    Optical effect - expanding circle with ship approaching. Circle shrinks; to black screen Another circle bit; CU steps of ship; Army man descends; then Lord and Lady Talbot. Pan left as they go down; Davy Stephens at bottom greets them; bows; shakes hands.

    British Army men assist Lord & Lady T. to car outside the Royal George Yacht Club. Dublin Metropolitan Police stand on the pavement. Then shot of cars driving around corner - street scene; or traffic scene - a few different types of cars. Boy runs across in interval.

    Finally; what looks like a sort of armoured car drives around; w/ soldier & rifle poking out of top.

    Military; something to do w/ Irish revolution; rebellion ? Irish nationalism.

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    Film ID:
    1934.22
    Media URN:
    73755
    Group:
    Old negatives
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    1914 - 1918
    Sound:
    Silent
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:20:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:58:19:00 / 01:59:39:00
    Canister:
    ON 167 F

Comments (1)

  1. johnny_doyle says

    May 1921. Arrival of Viscount Fitzalan (Lord Edmund Talbot) at Kingstown prior to being sworn in as Lord Lt and Governor General of Ireland.

    Armoured car is standard 1920 pattern Rolls-Royce deployed in Ireland at the time.

    Links in with Viscount Fitzalan clip

    https://www.britishpathe.com/video/viscount-fitzalan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_7752Mfbfg

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