Summerhill

[Mykidsmom]

Great videos rashers....something that just occurred to me to ask....is dublin a safe city...in that can you walk pretty much around safely at night??? reason i ask is i noticed many of the shop windows when i was there had bars on them...including ones in the city centre??

[Harolds X girl]

Great Video well done

[Rashers]

Originally Posted by Mykidsmom

Great videos rashers....something that just occurred to me to ask....is dublin a safe city...in that can you walk pretty much around safely at night??? reason i ask is i noticed many of the shop windows when i was there had bars on them...including ones in the city centre??

I've been asked the same in other forums Helen. The response from posters is usually the same. Like most other cities, and not as bad as a lot of them.... Dublin is the kind of city where if you take the usual precautions you'll be safe.

As for Summerhill. I was in there with my brother. He was taking photos of the oul area. Some kids asked if we were visitors. "Ask your da or your granda if we're visitors", and they lost interest.

[Red Biddy]

Rashers, I only remember 2 families with vehicles on our road - the Gallaghers and we used to call the dad the Duke. the man beside MKM's house had a van and sold vegetables and aged 12 or so I used to be on the back of the van selling spuds and cabbage on a Friday night and he paid us good money. 2 shillings for a few hours

Of course things had to improve but a lot has been lost too

[Rocky]

Hi Everyone. I'm new and have never taken part in a forum before so please be gentle with me! I am hoping that someone may know something of my mother's family George and Lizzie Tully and their children, Bill, George, Mickey, Sarah, Paddy, Mary, Christy, Johnny and Lillie. They lived in Upper Gloucester Place from before 1911 until the houses were pulled down for the building of the new Lourdes church. My grandmother Lizzie and one or two of her sons had a vegetable round (horse and float). I believe that Sarah may have turned the front room into a little shop. Two of their sons Bill and George took active part in the 1916 rebellion and were sent to prison in Staffordshire for several weeks before being released following an investigation. Lizzie's brother Patrick Clinch was also imprisoned in England following the rebellion. Sarah married Paddy Maguire, Mary married Joe McDonnell and Lillie married Jim Roche of Dun Laoghaire. I'd be so grateful if some of you can help me with info.

[boxman]

Originally Posted by Rocky

Hi Everyone. I'm new and have never taken part in a forum before so please be gentle with me! I am hoping that someone may know something of my mother's family George and Lizzie Tully and their children, Bill, George, Mickey, Sarah, Paddy, Mary, Christy, Johnny and Lillie. They lived in Upper Gloucester Place from before 1911 until the houses were pulled down for the building of the new Lourdes church. My grandmother Lizzie and one or two of her sons had a vegetable round (horse and float). I believe that Sarah may have turned the front room into a little shop. Two of their sons Bill and George took active part in the 1916 rebellion and were sent to prison in Staffordshire for several weeks before being released following an investigation. Lizzie's brother Patrick Clinch was also imprisoned in England following the rebellion. Sarah married Paddy Maguire, Mary married Joe McDonnell and Lillie married Jim Roche of Dun Laoghaire. I'd be so grateful if some of you can help me with info.

Welcome Rocky I'm sure there will be someone on here that can help you with your quest.

[DeeBee]

Hi Rocky and welcome from me too.

I'm having great fun with the 1901/1911 Census online. I was able to trace my Great Grandmother on my Mothers side of the family and she lived in Gloucester Place - could have been neighbours with your family.

Rashers ~ my grandmother had a shop in Mountjoy Square from the 1930's to 1950's ~ any chance you/your family shopped there?

[Rocky]

Hi DeeBee and Boxman. Yes, I've had a lot of luck with the censuses but I can't seem to get any further back. I've tried Glasnevin Cemetary but can't find any of my family buried there. Does anyone know which cemetary people from the Summerhill area were buried in? An interesting footnote is that my grandparents, although being Roman Catholic are buried in the little Church of Ireland cemetary in Drumcondra. How could this have happened in the nineteen forties when we had to have permission from the bishop to even attend a wedding or funeral in a church which wasn't catholic? That's a mystery I'd dearly love to solve. The problem is that my mother was the youngest by a long way of nine children. So all the older members of the family were long gone before I started on my quest.

[Rashers]

Originally Posted by Rocky

Hi DeeBee and Boxman. Yes, I've had a lot of luck with the censuses but I can't seem to get any further back. I've tried Glasnevin Cemetary but can't find any of my family buried there. Does anyone know which cemetary people from the Summerhill area were buried in? An interesting footnote is that my grandparents, although being Roman Catholic are buried in the little Church of Ireland cemetary in Drumcondra. How could this have happened in the nineteen forties when we had to have permission from the bishop to even attend a wedding or funeral in a church which wasn't catholic? That's a mystery I'd dearly love to solve. The problem is that my mother was the youngest by a long way of nine children. So all the older members of the family were long gone before I started on my quest.

Hiya Rocky. Sorry for the delay. All of my family are from Summerhill and many are buried in that little Church of Ireland cemetary in Drumcondra. If you drop in or ring, the caretaker there is one of the most helpful people and will (well he let members of my famly) let you look through the burial roll which I believe has a lot of info.

Best of luck in your search.

[Rocky]

Hi Rashers. Thank you. Yes I wrote to the rector there and he confirmed that they have records for five members of my family. I can purchase them from him which is what I will have to do as I am not in Ireland. He also told me that prior to the opening of the municipal cemeteries such as Glasnevin and Mount Jerome, the old city church graveyards were all in use as burial grounds. Graveyards in the care of the Church of Ireland prior to 1871 were classed as public graveyards and people of all religious denominations were buried together. So that's a little family mystery solved for me. I'll be really interested to see what information the burial records hold. I've heard that church records were often more detailed than civil ones. Can you remember what type of information they have in their records?