In the revolutionary decade of 1913 to 1923, Ireland was a place of conflict. In this interactive series, photographer David Cleary returns to locations captured on film a century ago and takes new photographs showing how those settings have changed - or not.
This photograph from the RTÉ Photographic Archive was taken at the corner of the Phibsborough Road and the North Circular Road in Phibsboro, Dublin known then and now as Doyle's corner. Taken during the War of Independence, it shows British army soldiers carrying out a search of a gleaming new motor car in 1921. John Doyle's pub, after which the corner is named, is the large building in the background. It remains essentially unchanged over a century later - though the number of the building is now displayed as 160 Phibsborough Road rather than 161, as it appears to have been in 1921, and the pub now proudly bears the name Doyle's Corner as opposed to just Doyle.
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Original image © RTÉ Photographic Archive
