1916 Dublin Directories or similar sources?

[DudleyWinchurch]

Hi,

Does anyone know of, or have access to, a Dublin Directory for 1916.

I have been reading the history of the siege of Moore Street and wanted to try and find out who was still occupying the block from 10-25 Moore St at the time.

I had family there in 1911 and don't know when they moved on.

Also interested in whether there is any civilian casualty list as the accounts mention that there were a number of civilians killed in the seige.

[Frazer]

I have a vague memory of seeing the names of 1916 civilian casualties on a memorial at Glasnevin Cemetery.   Perhaps someone from that side of the city might take a look for you.  It was close to the main gate in the area where Kevin Barry's remains were reinterred.

[gormangenealogy]

Hello,

The following list is taken from NORTH DUBLIN EASTER 1916. Produced by the NORTH INNER CITY, FOLKLORE PROJECT in 1993.

The civilians really suffered the most during the rising.
Both sides were responsible. Incidents like the death of a sixteen year old girl in the arms of her mother during the retreat from the G.P.O. were commonplace.
One incident stands out: the murders of civilians by the 2/6th South Staffords in North King Street on Friday evening and Saturday morning. Unlike the case of Bowen-Colthurst, the authorities covered up theses incidents and refused to hold an inquiry. The following names are know to have been murdered at this time.
174  Michael Noonan and George Ennis
172  Michael Hughes and John Walsh
177  (O'Rourke's Public House) Patrick Bealen and James Healy
27    (Louth Dairy) PJ Lawless, Jas Mac Cartney, Jas Finnegan and Patrick Hoey.

Regards
Noel Gorman
Dublin, Ire

[shanew147]

some details for Moore St. from Thom's of 1914 (the closest I have to 1916) :

  10 T.F.Coogan, provision dealer
  11 James Plunkett, china & glass dealer
  12 T.F.Coogan, confectionary
  13 Mrs. Rose Anne Hogan
  14 Mrs. Norton, china and glassware house
  15 Miss M. O'Gorman, clothes dealer
  16 Patrick Plunkett, poulterer etc
  17 Gore , R. J. chemist and druggist
    (res 6. Charlemont-rd. Clontarf) 
  18 & 19 ruins
  20/21 M. and P. Hanlon,  fishmongers and ice merchants
  22/23 George Price, importer of china , glass, earthenware, fancy baskets and goods
     (res. The Villa, Howth-road, Clontarf)
  24/25 Patk Kelly, fish merchant,


Shane

[eadaoin]

1922 thoms

much the same, except ...
12 Levenston C V , furniture
18 Thwaites A R & co

eadaoin

[DudleyWinchurch]

Shane and Eadaoin,

sorry I didn't see your messages before.  Thanks for your help.  It looks like Patrick Kelly, Master Poulterer (and his wife and Mistress    Ellen?) has taken over the fish business of my Great-grandmother who lived next door, some time between 1911 and 1914.  So my gran would not  have been there during the evacuation of the Post Office.

Do your directories, by any chance, have an entry for 3 Little Britain Street, just down the road?

thanks again,
Sheila

[shanew147]

from 1914 :

  3 Little Britain Street (N) Mrs Wogan, dairy,

described in the listing as from Capel- street to Green-street.



Shane

[eadaoin]

Thoms 1922

no 3 Britain St, Little ... Quirke, Mrs Mary A

eadaoin

[DudleyWinchurch]

Wow,

thanks again Shane and Eadaoin,

Eadaoin, that's my Great-grandmother, though I never knew her.  I know that she was at 3 Little Britain Street by 1917.  I visited the house once in the 1950s.  That seems to confirm that she took over the shop there and not just lived there.  Does it says what her trade was?

Shane, any chance of finding Mary Anne Quirk(e) in that locality in 1914 or I may have another interim address to seek out?  She was Fish Dealer at 24 Moore Street in 1911.

Liitle Britain Street, now rebuilt, still runs from roughly opposite what is the end of (the old Great Britain Street?) now Parnell Street, so they didn't move far from Moore Street.

thanks again to both of you, all great info.

Sheila