Image: Reading Room, Elise Sandes Soldiers Home, Curragh Camp (6678007009)
Description: We managed to date this one because of the religious verse (Acts, XV.II: "We believe that thro' our Lord Jesus we shall be saved") on the blackboard. In the top right corner is 16.7.16 or 16 July 1916! Any ideas on "Golden S.C.A. Text" from the top of the blackboard gratefully accepted! Fascinating information has come to us from macabee2012 on this photo: "This is the Reading Room of Miss Sandes Soldiers Home in the Curragh Camp. Elise Sandes (1851-1934) from Tralee, Co Kerry founded this movement near army camps in Ireland, England and India. She was an evangelical missionary and her aim was to provide wholesome recreation for young soldiers to keep them away from pubs. There were over thirty homes at one stage, eight of them in India. Their only rule they said, was "welcome" as on the back wall. The Curragh Home was the headquarters from its foundation in 1911 and incredibly it stayed open until the 1970s, serving the Irish army. Some of the buildings around the country have survived but not the one in the Curragh. Irish soldiers remeber the Home with great affection and appreciation. The movement still survives today, in much reduced form, in Northern Ireland. See www.sandes.org.uk for some history. And article in The Irish Sword of Summer 2007 for more info." macabee2012 also provided a link to History Ireland, vol. 13, issue 4, July/August 2005, where there's a great article by Bryan MacMahon, 'Endynamited by Christ', on Elise Sandes and her Homes in Ireland and all over the world... Date: Sunday, 16 July 1916 NLI Ref.: EAS_2484
Title: Reading Room, Elise Sandes Soldiers Home, Curragh Camp (6678007009)
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