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This photo of Roches Stores in the 70s perfectly sums up what most
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people would love - Roches to reopen and to see the back of Covid & be able to go shopping again
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(photo via Denis Coffey)
Died
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2019 Philomena Lynott 'She was a formidable woman. She played it hard, she played it tough – because she had learned that she'd have to, to survive.' 📷with Phil - More from
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Brand shiny new Patrick Street - rebuilt after the burning of
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December 1920 when the Roches Stores side was razed to the ground
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(photo via Denis Coffey)
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is the feast of St. Oliver Plunkett & if you are walking down the street of the same name in
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, look up as you pass EuroGiant. Hidden is the 19th-century Congregational Chapel, who knew! (photo courtesy of George Patterson)
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Brigade outside the office of the Freeman’s Journal in Dublin; back row: Daithí Cotter, Seán Murphy, Donal Barrett, Terence MacSwiney, Pat Trahey; front row: Tadgh Barry (Died
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100 yrs ago) Tomás MacCurtain & Pat Higgins
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Born
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100 yrs ago in
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(at 22 Quaker Road) actor Edward Mulhare. The Mon boy featured in Knight Rider, Von Ryan's Express & many more. He died in 1997 in California & is buried in St Joseph's Cemetery
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Great shot of 1950s Patricks Street
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with the beautiful gas company building on the corner of Merchant's Quay
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(photo via Dennis O'Driscoll)
Young boy sitting in the Northside of
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c1875 with the cityscape in view - possibly taken from Baker's Road direction (photo courtesy of Joe Healy)
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