Waiting for President Kennedy to drive past during his visit. At the statue of Father Theobald Matthew, crusader of the Irish Temperance movement in the nineteenth century, O'Connell Street. Dublin 1963.
On O'Connell Street in Dublin, a crowd gathers to await President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade during his 1963 visit. The large stone monument to Father Theobald Matthew, a nineteenth-century temperance crusader, becomes a makeshift climbing frame for a group of young boys. Some clamber over the ornate plinth, while others cling to the robes of the sculpted figure itself. In the background, American flags fly from a nearby building, heralding the occasion.
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