William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Nice

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Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-64

Quartermaster Hickey at the wheel of the L.E. Macha en route for Nice
ACC2012 02 65

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-65

French crowds gather to watch the L.E. Macha berth at Nice
ACC2012 02 66

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-66

French crowds at Nice interested in the L.E. Macha
ACC2012 02 67

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-67

Gang-plank goes ashore from the first Irish warship, the L.E. Macha, to berth at any Mediterranean port. Seaman Joe Higgins of Youghal was first rating ashore on French soil
ACC2012 02 68

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-68

Irish ratings and P.Os. Forming up outside the Church of Our Lady of Notre Dame in Nice
Ratings and Petty Officers of the L.E. Macha forming up outside Church after attending Mass 5/9/48.

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-69

Ratings and Petty Officers of the L.E. Macha forming up outside the Church of Our Lady of Notre Dame, Nice (France) after attending Mass, 5/9/48
ACC2012 02 70

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-70

Irish sailors of the L.E. Macha marching to Sunday morning Mass in Nice (France) 5/9/48
ACC2012 02 71

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-71

Party of Irish sailors parade to mass on a Sunday morning in Nice
ACC2012 02 72

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-72

In the cemetery at Roquebrune where Yeats had been buried. M. Otto, a Mentone lawyor, working on the text of the farewell oration which he addressed to the dead poet before the cortege started for Nice
ACC2012 02 73

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-73

Looking down on Cap Martin (where Yeats lived for a time) from the cemetery at Roquebrune
ACC2012 02 74

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-74

View from the top of the terraced cemetery of Roquebrune, where Yeats was buried, looking out on the Mediterranean
ACC2012 02 75

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-75

View of graveyard
ACC2012 02 76

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-76

Undertaker's party screwing down the lid of the outer coffin containing the body of Yeats - scene outside the mortuary in the cemetery at Roquebrune (France). Figure on left is that of gravedigger. Other civilian is M/ Otto, poet and lawyer of Mentone, who delivered farewell oration.
French Honour Guard at Roquebrune

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-77

French honour guard
The band of the 159th Regiment (French Army) heads the funeral procession on to the harbour at Nice.

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-78

The band of the 159th Regiment (French Army) heads up the funeral procession on to the harbour at Nice
ACC2012 02 79

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-79

L.E. Macha pulls away from the quayside at Nice (France)
ACC2012 02 80

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/01/1932 - 31/12/1932

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-80

The L.E. Macha pulls away from the quayside at Nice, 6/9/48
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Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/01/1932 - 31/12/1932

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-81

The L.E. Macha clears the harbour at Nice, 6/9/48
ACC2012 02 63

Nice

Category: William Butler Yeats and the Irish Naval Service

Album: Nice

Date Range: 01/08/1948 - 30/09/1948

Reference Code: ACC2012-02-63

In Nice harbour (France) the L.E. Macha prepares to swing around prior to berthing.