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Images of W.T. Cosgrave

Images of W.T. Cosgrave (born 1880, died 1965).



Undated pictures

  

W.T. Cosgrave.
See full size. Posted here.



W.T. Cosgrave.
See full size. From RTE.



W.T. Cosgrave.
From RIA.



W.T. Cosgrave.
See full size. From here.



W.T. Cosgrave.
See full size.
Posted here.



W.T. Cosgrave.
From here. Also here.



Left to right: Kevin O'Higgins (killed 1927), Michael Hayes, W.T. Cosgrave, Hugh Kennedy, Desmond FitzGerald and Ernest Blyth.
See full size. Posted here.



W.T. Cosgrave.
See full size. From National Digital Archives, Poland.



W.T. Cosgrave.
See full size. From National Digital Archives, Poland.



W.T. Cosgrave.
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Dated pictures

  

Election poster for W.T. Cosgrave in Kilkenny city by-election, 1917.
See full size. From RIA.



"W.T. Cosgrave MP addresses Sinn Fein supporters in Kilkenny", must be 1918.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



The pro-Treaty group, outside the Mansion House, Dublin, in 1922.
Front row includes a line of Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith, W.T. Cosgrave, Kevin O'Higgins.
These are the Treaty supporters only, not all Dail members. (Note De Valera is not there.)
This is after the split of Jan 1922 and before Aug 1922 (when Griffith and Collins died).
From NLI. See here.



W.T. Cosgrave (front to left) at funeral of Michael Collins, Glasnevin, Aug 1922.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave giving oration at funeral of Michael Collins, Glasnevin, Aug 1922.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave addressing crowd at College Green, Dublin.
Think shortly after he became President (i.e. Aug 1922), think NOT Aug 1923.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave presiding at meeting of Free State cabinet, during Civil War, Oct 1922.
(Left to Right): W.T. Cosgrave, Ernest Blythe, Kevin O'Higgins, James J. Walsh.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.
See wider shot from Collins 22 Society.



W.T. Cosgrave (centre) presiding at meeting of Free State cabinet, during Civil War, Oct 1922.
From Collins 22 Society.
Originally from Freeman's Journal, 7 Oct 1922, p.3.



W.T. Cosgrave (RHS), at Dublin Castle, early 1923.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave (seated, centre), Irish delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva, Sept 1923.
They were making a formal application for the Irish Free State's membership of the League of Nations (which was granted).
From DFA.
See other copy. From NAI.



W.T. Cosgrave (RHS) returning from League of Nations, 1923.
Here he talks with the Captain aboard the SS Lady Louth as the ship is about to enter the River Liffey.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave, 1923.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave (front to left), Free State government group.
Outside NUI Office, Merrion Square, Dublin, c.1923.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave (RHS) starts the building of the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station, 13 August 1925.
At the time, this was the largest hydroelectric station in the world.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



Cartoon on the Boundary Commission agreement, Punch magazine, 9 December 1925.
Posted here.



George V (centre, seated) and his Prime Ministers at the 1926 Imperial Conference, London.
W.T. Cosgrave is standing, back RHS.
Photo 4 Nov 1926. From Library and Archives Canada.


   
W.T. Cosgrave.
As President, arriving at the Imperial Conference, 10 Downing St, London.



W.T. Cosgrave (front RHS) at the state funeral for the assassinated Kevin O'Higgins, July 1927.
Front centre is Tim Healy, the Governor-General.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave leading the funeral for Kevin O'Higgins past Government buildings, July 1927.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T.'s cabinet, 1928.
See full size. From here.



Menu for banquet in New York, 1 Feb 1928, during visit of President W.T. Cosgrave to USA.
Banquet given by Mayor Jimmy Walker.
See full size.
For sale in 2021 here.



W.T. Cosgrave re-opens the re-built GPO, Apr 1928.
Image courtesy of Cork Multitext Project, UCC (formerly here). Used with permission.



W.T. Cosgrave re-opens the re-built GPO.
From Photos of Dublin.



A rare picture in which W.T. Cosgrave gives the fascist salute.
The Blueshirt salute is given at a ball at the Mansion House, Dublin, 29 Nov 1934, organized on the release of Col. Jerry Ryan from prison.
Ryan was a leading Blueshirt and a member of the Fine Gael national executive. He was charged in 1934 with an attempted murder.
See full size. From National Digital Archives, Poland.
Their text lists the people visible as including W.T. Cosgrave (in a tailcoat), Col. Ned Cronin (Blueshirt leader), Col. Jerry Ryan, and Ernest Blythe (on the left behind Cosgrave).
See colorised version, from Old Ireland in Colour 2 (2021) by John Breslin and Sarah-Anne Buckley. From here.



W.T. Cosgrave (right) at an event for Austrian refugees in 1939.
See larger and full size.
See back.


  

Portraits

  

Portrait of W.T. Cosgrave. From Leinster House.



W.T. Cosgrave, Irish postage stamp, 1988.
From poppe-stamps.com.
See also mint but small version formerly here.



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