Earl St. Dublin
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| In collection: | The Lawrence Photograph Collection |
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[between 1890-1910].
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| Notes: | Additional information about this photograph may be available on the National Library of Ireland's Flickr Commons photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/6305050889/in/photostream/ Robert French was the chief photographer responsible for photographing three quarters of the Lawrence Collection. For more information, see the Dictionary of Irish Biography: http://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a3369 Physical description: 1 photographic negative glass 16.5 x 21.5 cm. Geographic Coverage: Dublin City, County Dublin, Province of Leinster, Ireland. Caption on glassplate reads: Earl St. Dublin. 8360. W. L. more |
Gorgeous bustling street scene taken at the corner of Earl Street and Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street), that also captures a great array of businesses in turn of the century Dublin. These include:
The Sackville Café
Hickey & Co. at no. 24
Sheridans Tea, Wine & Spirit Merchant, no. 26
Alexander, no. 27 (Billiards & Pool)
Bowe & Co., no. 28
Dominating the foreground is Tylers, "the largest retailers in the world". On the day this photo was taken, they were having a sale to "clear surplus stock", and thanks to Downes clock, we know this photo was taken at 19 minutes past 2.
Date: Circa 1900
NLI Ref.: LROY 8560
Tags:
Earl Street, Sackville Street, O'Connell Street, Shoppers, Crowds, Sackville Café, Hickey & Co., Sheridans, Tea, Wine & Spirit Merchant, Alexander, Bowe & Co., Tylers, Boots, Billiards, Pool, Downes, Clock, Tram, Tram 75, Bransons Coffee, McFarlanes Teas, Dublin, Ireland, 1900, 1900s, Robert French, Maypole Tea, William Lawrence, Lawrence Collection, National Library of Ireland
Comments
Sarah K Mc
Oh I love the outfits the little girls are wearing in the bottom right of this photo!
Posted: 02.11.2011
Swordscookie
All human life is there! You have the young girls wearing their lovely outfits and the young boy in rags and bare feet, the poor, the well off, the young and old and all crowded into a space most of us have occupied at some stage. I like the sign on the right "Maypole tea is best!" - never heard of it but I'll take their word. Super shot NLI thank you for sharing this.
Posted: 02.11.2011
Thom's 1904
Ulysses mostly ignores Earl street, although Nelson's pillar and the GPO are directly behind the photographer. Thom's 1904 covers this patch on page 1481. Meagher's, where Bloom lent Hynes three shillings, and Downes' cakeshop which Maria visits in the story "Clay" are somewhere on the near right.
Posted: 19.03.2018
Niall McAuley
The tram was electrified here in 1898.
Posted: 01.09.2022
Photoamble.
all dubcity was then paved with Sett stones. I hope someday to learn the history as to where and how they arrived in our streets.
Posted: 04.10.2022
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/photoamble] Thank you, Mary
Posted: 06.10.2022
