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I wonder is this related to the Emmet Street unpleasentness we had a couple of years ago. www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/8558487905/

There's a Patrick O'Neill, Tailor, in Emmet Street in 1911. I don't see anything like this building there though.

On the lozenge shaped posters there is mention of "O'Neills, William O'Brien Street, Tipperary"????? I love this shot, a great selection of items on display on what appears to be a wet day with no regard for the damp on the cotton and wool products! The bustle on the lady in the poster might give a clue as to the date?

If it's advertising O'Brien Street, then this is presumably elsewhere. Maybe it's one of the buildings in the Marketplace.

If this building was also known as the "Irish House" in Tipperary (as the signs suggest), then it appears to have been destroyed by British Forces in the War of Independence in reprisal for an ambush at Lisnagaul in Nov 1920. Compensation for the loss was later discussed in the Dáil in 1925: href="http://oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debateswebpack.nsf/takes/dail1925061800007"rel="nofollow">oireachtasdebates.oireachtas.ie/debates%20authoring/debat... EDIT: Since B-59 has found images of the 'old' Irish House and the 'new' Irish House in the Pall Mall Gazette (see below), we can now suggest that it was the three-storey Irish House on Main Street that was destroyed in November 1920, not the building in the image above.

for Dainty Lingerie no less!! Carol

Based on the fact that it's on a junction, and the ground slopes steeply right to left, I'm going to guess that this shop is at 12 Broad Street. If so, the shop is long gone, replaced by an ugly cubic thing.

I would say that the local Horrockses sales, marketing and merchantising team paid for this photograph. They probably won the annual marketing prize for their efforts here!!

They were a right crowd of Horrockes and thats for sure. What a wonderful shot, not only of the gentleman and his infant son in whom he has such pride but of the display and variety he has in his shop and windows. Blasts from the past - gingham, voile, overalls, flannelettes - this one has it all including the picture on display of the old lady with the loom.

Swordscookie I know! The only thing missing is Winceyette... Or is it? Screwing in monocle, and having another look!

Mahony was there in 1911. Boyle, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have been.

May as well have the OSI link: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,616768,911347,7,9

Here is a Streetview, but the nice trees planted in the Square now make getting this angle impossible.

Niall McAuley Well, it looks like we have this one covered. Nobody else seems inclined to add anything.

What about the cars - they should produce a date? Guessing mid 1920s.