A case of mistaken identity in the Devonshire Arms
It’s an excellent picture by a fine artist, Belfast-born Dameon Priestly. There is one small drawback, however. The man featured in it is not Flann.
It’s an excellent picture by a fine artist, Belfast-born Dameon Priestly. There is one small drawback, however. The man featured in it is not Flann. The photo was taken circa 1945 in Dublin’s Palace Bar, a place O’Nolan did indeed frequent then.Dare-devil parliamentarian – Tim Fanning on the O’Gorman MahonHe may well have been on the premises at the time. He is not, however, in the picture. The man who is was the poet Robert Farren , aka Roibeárd Ó Faracháin, as revealed by his son Ronan Farren in a letter to this paper in 2017.
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