.......was apparently destroyed in the Easter Rising......what on earth was it, presumably it wasn't a hotel for visiting elephants?
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Originally posted by KatieMorag View Post.......was apparently destroyed in the Easter Rising......what on earth was it, presumably it wasn't a hotel for visiting elephants?We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Originally posted by KatieMorag View Postgreat, thanks dtw.
We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View PostStill goin strong afaik.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elverys_SportsWe'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Great little read here https://thecricketbatthatdiedforirel...e-street-1916/We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View PostGreat little read here https://thecricketbatthatdiedforirel...e-street-1916/We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!
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This cricket bat was on display in the front window of Elvery’s when it became an early casualty of the violence that erupted in Dublin’s Sackville St, now O’Connell St, on Easter Monday, 1916.
By Brenda Malone
J.W. Elvery & Co, one Ireland’s oldest sports stores, specialised in sporting goods and waterproofed wear, with branches in Dublin, Cork’s St Patrick’s St, and London’s Conduit St,t. Each shop had the distinctive statue of an elephant above the front door, giving them the name Elvery’s Elephant House.
In 1916, the Dublin city centre branch was located at 46 & 47 Lower Sackville St, and was famous enough to be mentioned in James Joyce’s Ulysses.
The shop’s location, about one block from the GPO, meant it was in the middle of the crossfire and general destruction of the main street.
The remains of Sackville St, now O’Connell St, after the Rising. Elvery’s store at 46 & 47 Lower Sackville St was only about a block from the GPO. Picture: Hulton Archive/GettyI google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit
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