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Here's a wonderful bit of Red Herring ... "Sweet Afton" on the bar window - "Sweet Afton was an Irish brand of short, unfiltered cigarettes made with Virginia tobacco and produced by P.J. Carroll & Co., Dundalk, Ireland, now a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. The Sweet Afton brand was launched by Carroll's in 1919 to celebrate the link between Dundalk and the national poet of Scotland, Robert Burns. Burns' eldest sister, Agnes, lived in Dundalk from 1817 until her death in 1834 and was buried in the cemetery of St. Nicholas's Church in the town. Carroll's thought that the brand would only be successful in Scotland if the carton simply had an image of Burns, or Scottish name on the packet, so the people of Dundalk were canvassed and the name Sweet Afton was chosen. The name is taken from Burns' poem "Sweet Afton", which itself takes its title from the poem's first stanza:

Flow gently, sweet Afton, amang thy green braes Flow gently, I’ll sing thee a song in thy praise My Mary’s asleep by thy murmuring stream Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.

A larger version of the cigarette was also marketed under the brand name Afton Major. This name served as inspiration for Carroll's later Major brand of tipped cigarettes. As of Autumn 2011, British American Tobacco no longer manufacture Sweet Afton cigarettes. ... The brand proved particularly popular with post World War II Rive Gauche Paris. It was reputed to be Jean-Paul Sartre's preferred cigarette, and also featured prominently in Louis Malle's film Le Feu Follet, as well as a number of other Nouvelle Vague films. Margot Tenenbaum (played by Gwyneth Paltrow) from Wes Anderson's 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums also smokes Sweet Aftons." From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_Afton_(cigarette)

DannyM8 there's a dog in this!!!!

"and the chances are they were also the local undertakers!" I don't see a monument builder's of undertaker's shop window though.

A great wee bit of history in this. Do you know whether they were successful in their attempt to get lower rents - or does the title of this mean they were evicted?

Vab2009 No other information yet, but would love to find out more information about the Plan of Campaign in the Mitchelstown area, the landlord(s) involved, and would die happy if anyone knows about the O'Sullivans in particular...

And two doors down is the local cop shop! There is a very good article on Wikipedia on the plan of campaign and it appears that the Tipperary and North Cork areas were deeply involved. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_of_Campaign The Plan of Campaign was a stratagem adopted in Ireland between 1886 and 1891, co-ordinated by Irish politicians for the benefit of tenant farmers, against mainly absentee and rack-rent landlords. It was launched to counter agricultural distress caused by the continual depression in prices of dairy products and cattle from the mid 1870s, which left many tenants in arrears with rent. Bad weather in 1885 and 1886 also caused crop failure, making it harder to pay rents. The Land War of the early 1880s was about to be renewed after evictions increased and outrages became widespread.

Welcome back Carol, hope that you had a very good time and are now fully recovered and raring to go??? Congrats on reaching the 1000th

Yes indeed congrats on reaching the 1000th-now to the next thousand items of interest from the past!

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Darcy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex_Rickard Tim O'Sullivan, Darcy's Australian manager. Photo used in Tex Rickard: Boxing's Greatest Promoter, by Colleen Aycock, Mark Scott books.google.com/books?id=-EuHEDwITOsC&pg=PA124&l... Identified as when Darcy and O'Sullivan arrived in New York on Dec 23, 1916.

It took his ship 60 days to get to New York. query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9406E4D9113CE7...