QUEEN ST / STREETS

QUEEN ST

Originally Queen St was a continuation of Pound St. It officially came into existence as a separate Street on 1839 - no doubt in commemoration of the recently crowned Queen Victoria.

John O'Briens butchers and the corner boys waiting for the Market Cross bars to be built circa 1915

....and a later version

Staff of Gleeson's Tearoom and Cakeshop

Nora Talbot and son Philip in their Drapers. The next door shop at 34 used to be the residence for Art Tutor Andy Lennox. Talbots was once the residence of Denis 'Sonny' O'Neill, alleged slayer of Michael Collins

a different colour scheme

O'Meara's - 33 Queen St

Mahers pub later to be the Quill

Starr's, Thorntons and Gaynors. Prime examples of vernacular shop architecture. Many of us made our first Airfix scale models bought from Thorntons, or the Favourite as it was at one time known.

Gaynors at 8 Queen St, purveyors of fine china, delph wholesalers and light hardware. They also had a licence to sell guns.

Starr and Sons at 10 Queen St - a quaint shop in Queen St and always worthy of a good window display whether it be Corpus Christi or a local Eire Og match

Murray's Hardware

Gubbins Letterhead, 14 Queen St

John O'Briens butchers formerly McGraths Pawnbrokers

Ryans Drapers and later Greengrocers with Peg Ryan by the door

McMahon's at 27 & 28 Queen St later to become Bolands

Pumps and Taps from Rody Bolands bar

Rody Bolands shop. The interior bar fittings were gutted and are now to be found as part of the decor in a pub in Dublin. The windows were a political statement with a permanent display of Republican posters

Political posters being stuck in the much photographed windows of Rody Bolands. One such image is to be found in Jill & Leon Uris's iconic book Ireland....A Terrible Beauty.

Over the years the premises has seen the Labour Party and Sinn Fein make use of the shop floor as a base of operations