%0 Photo %A O'Brien, Gearoid, photographer %E O'Brien, Gearoid, reseacher %E Federation of Local History Societies (Ireland) %E Federation for Ulster Local Studies %D 1993 %G English %T Connaught Street, Athlone. %X Connaught Street was the principal shopping street on the connaught side of Athlone. The novelist John Broderick was born here in 1927 and the street and its people feature extensively in his writings.