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Here is 1920 record of the death of Francis Sparrow Whitney, merchant at Dalkey House, Dalkey. A widower, son R. Whitney present.

The 1911 census does not mention Sparrows and gives his wife as Maria. Perhaps this is a son of the original?

The birth record of Lillian from 1911 says her mother was Caroline Esther née Brereton

No, but the name can't be a coincidence. The record of his wedding to Caroline Brereton says he is a bachelor and his father was William

Here is a pic of Eliza's gravestone in Mount Jerome

“Maureen Barry O'Delany (1 December 1888 – 27 March 1961), professionally known as Maureen Delany and also billed as Maureen Delaney, was an Irish stage actress and screen actress of British films”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maureen_Delany

Nickname was 'Daisy' according to - www.imdb.com/name/nm0216319/

Evidently she over-acted - www.dib.ie/biography/delany-maureen-a9252 -
... Another part which Dublin theatregoers considered she made her own was the Widow Quin in ‘The playboy of the western world’ by J. M. Synge (qv). However, the critic Hugh Hunt (qv), assessing her career, noted that she played all her famous character parts in the same manner: ‘Large, warm-hearted, with a permanent twinkle in her eye . . . Maureen was not a great actress, but she was a superb performer. For over twenty years she was to play herself on the stage without varying her characterisation by a twitch of her eyebrow, to the utter delight of her public’ (Hunt, 118). The Dublin audience's appreciation probably prevented her development and froze her mannerisms; the American critic George Jean Nathan, writing on the Abbey's 1937 American tour, called the company ‘a caricature of its former self . . . [it] is obviously unable to control its fundamentally talented but personally over-cocky actress, Maureen Delany, and to prevent her from indulging in an outrageous overplaying, winking, snorting, and mugging that wreck any serious play she is in’ (Newsweek, 27 Dec. 1937). Her Times obituary noted that the Dublin audience often began to laugh even before she spoke. ...

youtu.be/A6lVN8niepA?si=r0TBjz5kPPx_Uyoq

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She first played this role in 1917, at the Abbey, of course

www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/975/

I don’t see any performances of this play in 1933, but it was performed in 1934

www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/2191/

The catalogue says rural village but the buildings say Town to me.

Niall McAuley Agreed!

Niall McAuley It's the Krazy Kataloguers in Library Towers once again!

Any clues from the shop names? Looks like "Household ......." on the shop name at the street corner. Cannot quite read the name on the shop front behind the cart.

Hassett at #9, I think, and Household Bazaar, maybe