Sir, – The vintage photographs from the Press Association ("The 1916 Rising – Rarely seen photographs", March 24th) were extremely interesting.
One slight quibble – the photograph of British troops building a barbed-wire barricade at 138 Summerhill was actually taken on January 1st, 1921, by the famed Cork-born photographer Joseph Cashman (1881-1969).
The giveaway is the fact that some of the troops are wearing the “Brodie” steel helmets, which did not appear in Ireland until 1920.
The occasion was probably the increased repression and tightening of security in Dublin in the aftermath of the Bloody Sunday killings of British intelligence officers by Michael Collins’s squads in November 1920. – Yours, etc,
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PATRICK JUDGE,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.