Photo-Dublin Airport Construction Workers 1939

[gormangenealogy]

Any relatives here.

 Front row L-R,unidenified,J.O'Rourke,John Monaghan,Billy Rickards,Jim Dennis,Henery Savage,Jack Crosby,Josie Maguire.2nd row, Tom Hand,Ned Butler,Nick Valentine,Jack Brown,Kit Nulty,Tom McGuirk,Mick Markey,Tommy Markey,Jack Manning,J.Kavanagh,Mick Savage. 3t

Regards
Noel Gorman
Dublin, Ire

[Bridget x]

Great photo Noel! Wouldn't it be great if one could identify one of their "own" among  that lot of workmen. Thanks a lot for that. Bridget x

[Taidquest]

yes Noel, great photo,I wonder what the occasion was.
I know from my mothers stories that a lot of the building
 line workers lost their jobs around then because of a shortage
of raw materials. my own grandfather John Owens worked for
mc inerneys construction company and the building of Donore ave flats
had to be abandoned.I wonder if any of the men in this photo later joined
 the British army to fight in WW11 or like my grandad went to Chester to work in an aircraft factory.
                                                                Anne

[emmsthheight]

Hi Noel

What a brilliant photo!"
And all those names as well.  So many around this era have no names to go with them or very few.

I shall just dream of proving one of mine is the unnamed one!

Thank you for sharing it, Noel

Emms

[Private 1st class]

Hi The third row , 4th in, is Vincent Lyons, He lived on main st , Swords and later in Newcommen Ave North Strand. Was a member of 4th Battalion old I R A. After this photo he joined the Irish Army, and was a member of the 26th Battalion. B Company.
Second Row two in from the right. Edward Lane, FCompany 2nd Battalion Jacobs. A member of the A S U , Dublin Guards, 26th Battalion B Coy.
In this photo is the grand dad of a well know football player. The house in the background is Corballis House. The grand dad is is a man called Stacks Henvy third row on the right He is grand father to Liam chippy Brady of Arsenal and Ireland fame. The Photo was taken in 1937.
Back row; Sean Kavanagh, (airport). Name is unknown although he worked as the nightwatchman, Paddy Roy (ballymun Cottages) Not known, although he was a native of Finglas. Larry Kane, (connolly Ave, Kinsealy Lane), Leo Ryan (Baldoyle) Mr Brady (FINGLAS), Not known, but again a Finglas man, Bill Nagle (Dardistown, Cloghran), Mr Cronin (Head Foreman).
Third row; Peter Cannon.(Swords), Johnny Rourke (From Commons, Swords) Jim Galvin (Turnapin Lane) Vincent Lyons, Not Known, Not Known, Not Known, Mr Hanley (Airport), Stack Henvy,(Coolock).
Second row, Peter Dolan (Finglas), James Keenan  (Foreman) Not Known, although a Finglas man. Futchie Brown, (Wellow Walls, Malahide,) Jem Grimes, otherwise nicknamed ''''

[Private 1st class]

hI HAD TO DO THIS IN TWO LOTS,
'Pucksheen' Grimes, from Kinsealy. Sod McGuirk 9Turnapin Lane), Mr Cooney who specialsed in steamrolling the runway. Mr Byrne (Finglas), John Hanlon (Kinsaely Lane) Ned Lane, Eddie Owens (Malahide),
Front Row. Josie Howard (Swords) Charlie Mulhall (Kinsealy Lane), Joe Farrell (Balheary),  'Nipper'as he was known and helped with the food supply  for the team. Jack Stafford, (Swords), 'Tomatoes' O'Toole, (Swords), Not Known, Dick Maguire, (Feltrim).

[corisande]

You have named in that photo - J Kavanagh and Sean Kavanagh.

I know that Sean/John Kavanagh, who had been in Casement's Irish Brigade worked as a caretaker at the Airport at that time

My web page on Kavanagh has  2 photos of him, but I cannot reconcile either of the two Kavanaghs in the photo to him - any ideas?

[Private 1st class]

Hi, Taking the 2nd row from left to right number ten is ned Lane, The reason being he is my father. I have a copy of this photo,I would say that most if not all of them were given a copy. or purchased one. Fingal Independent done an article on this photo on the 15th of Feb 2006. They asked if anyone knew any of the men in the photo. I answered the article at the time. Ihave looked at your photo and will give it more time and see if I can pick him out. Its very hard when the person is  wearing head gear. Also I found that a persons face can change quite a lot over the years. Keep up the search and the best of luck.

[Private 1st class]

Hi again your sean kavanagh is the back row first person, His address is the Airport. If he was caretaker he must have lived some where on the site. best of luck