W.D. Hogan (56 Henry St., Dublin)
1921, 11 April
Relief

Gelatin silver print
National Library of Ireland
NLI Ref.: HOGW 117
 
Curatorial comments by the National Library of Ireland (via Flickr, accessed: 16 May 2012)
 
This shot of joking Black and Tans and Auxiliaries was taken outside the London and North Western Hotel, North Wall, Dublin as they surveyed the damage after an I.R.A. attack on their quarters. Written on the mount of this photo was "Tans glad to have escaped the bombs thrown at their headquarters in Dublin".
 
The next day's Irish Times started a long report with these paragraphs:
 
"… the hotel, which is at present occupied by Auxiliary police, was attacked shortly before eight o'clock yesterday morning by a party of men with bombs and rifles. The police returned the fire, and one of the attackers was seriously wounded and has since been taken to George V. Hospital. Two other men were also wounded and are now patients in the Mater Hospital. Another account from an authoritative source says that twelve bombs were thrown at the windows of the hotel, which is occupied by members of the Auxiliary police force employed on duty at the docks. Six men fired revolvers at the windows. Fire was returned by the police and one man was killed in the act of throwing a bomb, and one cadet was slightly wounded…"
 
LL/48218