So it variety of Men of Southern-nearly same as the initial which had languished unfinished inside Sean Keating’s Rathfarnham studio up until acquired by Douglas Hyde Range inside the 1944-try bought from the musician because of the Albert Trees KC and you can offered as the something special toward author’s grandma, Nora Moylan, whom hung they on the sitting-space wall. The job depicts a small grouping of average guys looking for an ideal: (side, remaining so you’re able to correct) Michael Sullivan, John Jones, Roger Kiely, Dan Brownish; (straight back, left in order to proper) Jim O’Riordan, Denis O’Mullane, Jim Cashman and you can (with binoculars) Sean Moylan. (Moylan loved ones)
The newest roots of men of one’s Southern is related to an event on the twenty five Could possibly get 1921 anywhere between Albert Wood KC and you can the fresh recently arrested Sean Moylan, frontrunner of your own second North Cork Brigade of your IRA. Moylan was recharged of the an army court with ‘hands off arms and levying conflict resistant to the Crown’ and you can is into trial for their lifestyle. Operating 24 hours a day, Albert Timber and also the instructing solicitor, Barry Sullivan away from Mallow, successfully acquired an excellent writ off habeas corpus. New dying penalty try commuted to ten years’ penal servitude; once the occurrences proved, because of the August 1921 Moylan premiered by foot of the Truce. Many years later on, Moylan appreciated you to 1st feeling out of Timber try from a man out-of considerable presence, ‘wonderfully outfitted and groomed having a feature you to appeared to be this new quintessence out of Oxford’. Albert Timber was good patron of your own arts.