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  • Elvery's Elephant House.......

    .......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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    sorry should be in arts and culture....can a kind mod please move it there.....

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    • #3
      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?
      lol...not at all..it was a sports shop with a model elephant over the door I have some pix wil post ron.....later ron :-).
      We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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      • #4
        great, thanks dtw.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by KatieMorag View Post
          great, thanks dtw.
          Still goin strong afaik.
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          We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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          • #6
            Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
            Am sure the top pic building replaced the bombed out jobbie.....and I'm sure there was at one time one in Georges Street South.
            We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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            • #7
              Great little read here https://thecricketbatthatdiedforirel...e-street-1916/
              We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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              • #8
                Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
                And here one in Suffolk Street... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ramio_(74).jpg
                We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                • #9
                  There's loads of branches! The elephant is still around too.....
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                  • #10
                    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/Getty
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                    I google because I'm not young enough to know everything.
                    Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit

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                    • #11
                      Nassau....no big effelant there.
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                      We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                      • #12
                        5 Elephants on the banners in the window DTW
                        The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by dinny View Post
                          5 Elephants on the banners in the window DTW
                          Ahh yeh saw that but no BIG wan....like the other wooden ?jobbies.
                          We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by DAMNTHEWEATHER View Post
                            Ahh yeh saw that but no BIG wan....like the other wooden ?jobbies.
                            There will be a few pink ones there around midnight I bet
                            The mind is everything. What you think you become.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by dinny View Post
                              There will be a few pink ones there around midnight I bet
                              Yip...seems dor makin dor way from New Zealand as we type.
                              We'll sail be the tide....aarghhhh !!

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