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Oh I love the outfits the little girls are wearing in the bottom right of this photo!

All human life is there! You have the young girls wearing their lovely outfits and the young boy in rags and bare feet, the poor, the well off, the young and old and all crowded into a space most of us have occupied at some stage. I like the sign on the right "Maypole tea is best!" - never heard of it but I'll take their word. Super shot NLI thank you for sharing this.

Swordscookie No problem at all! :)

Ulysses mostly ignores Earl street, although Nelson's pillar and the GPO are directly behind the photographer. Thom's 1904 covers this patch on page 1481. Meagher's, where Bloom lent Hynes three shillings, and Downes' cakeshop which Maria visits in the story "Clay" are somewhere on the near right.

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Streetview 2014: goo.gl/maps/MhywBh5gmWr

oh my first thought was "BOLIVIA" !! :-) the original source of the potato mmmmm

Foxglove Me too! I notice the boy with the white collar on the right is carrying a basket similar to the one my Dad used when he was working on the the railway. He would carry his lunch and necessities in it with his "journals" where he noted the accounts of the times and places he would go to!

Now Pearse Street According to mullingarhistory.wordpress.com/mullingar-town-council-blogs/, Earl Street appears to have been named in honour of the new Landlord of Mullingar, Colonel Greville, who had purchased the town in 1858. In 1920-21, streets were re-named after patriot dead and other suitable figures.

We see the gable of #18 at right, built in 1870. If it was built, we would see the bay window of 20-22, built around 1890.