Sir, - I refer to the photograph of the 1916 Rising/Civil War taken by Walter Doughty and published in The Irish Times of September 16th. The photograph was also included in the Guardian of the same day, and clearly located within the Easter Rising as "a group of rebels with rifles crouching behind a barricade of barrels near Trinity". While your caption was not so specific, the historical detail given was too broad.
The photograph is actually from the Irish Independent of Thursday July 16th, 1922, and labelled "units of the National Army Reserve operating behind a barricade at Brunswick Street Corner." Equally intriguing is that the photograph is not credited to Walter Doughty, but to an Independent staff photographer. One feels that the Guardian and its retrospective exhibition, "Left a Bit!", should be more careful with its Irish history. - Yours, etc.,
Dr Mike Cronin, Department of History, De Montfort University, Leicester, England.