Group of what may be foreign dignitaries

A Fez, furs, feathers, monocles, moustaches, spats, top hats, flowers all add up to a very well dressed group with a lot of self esteem and no little wealth and importance. The army officer at the rear is clearly wearing an early Irish Army uniform so we can take it that it was taken in Ireland but what else do we know about them?..Almost simultaneously sharon.corbet ( /photos/scorbet/ ) and guliolopez ( /photos/20727502@N00/ ) suggested that this image is from the same period as a previous image from this stream ( ...nlireland/18426438103/ ) . If so, it would date this image to 1924 (rather than the c.1922 of the catalogue entry), and probably capture a group of dignitaries, possibly at the Chief Steward's Lodge, during the inaugural Tailteann Games ( Tailteann_Games_(Irish_Free_State) ) .......Photographer: W. D. Hogan..Collection: Hogan Wilson Collection ( http://catalogue.nli.ie/Author/Home?author=Hogan-Wilson Collection ) ..Date: Catalogue date c.1922. Possibly Aug c.1924..NLI Ref.: HOG190 ( vtls000218490 ) ..You can also view this image, and many thousands of others, on the NLI’s catalogue at catalogue.nli.ie ( http://catalogue.nli.ie )