tombarry

Here on Streetview. I walked past it every day to school. Although I never saw any tandems in Ross. www.google.es/maps/@51.5779082,-9.0319684,3a,75y,330.27h,...

Taken from www.rosscarbery.ie/rosscarbery-notes-june-18th-2015/ it would appear that Tom Barry's father ran The Arcade for a while. "Tom Barry likewise came from a long established farming family in Rosscarbery. His father joined the RIC, was stationed in North Cork where he married Margaret O’Donovan from Liscarroll. The family moved to Killorglin Co Kerry where Tom was born on 1st July 1897. His father resigned from the RIC and returned to Rosscarbery to run “The Arcade” as a retail business for about 8 years, they subsequently moved to Bandon and then emigrated to Liverpool. Tom joined the British Army in June 1915 and served in Mesopotamia and Egypt. He returned to Bandon after the War and worked for better treatment of the many ex-servicemen in the area who were now forgotten by the authorities. He became disillusioned by the British authorities and joined the IRA. With his military training and active service he put his experiences to good use and became the most successful and noted Flying Column leader of the War of Independence."

The building is from 1840 per the NIAH

The Allsops Ale sign at left says "Sold by Jeremiah Collins, the Arcade". Jeremiah was 61 in the 1911 census.

The NIAH says the Barrys were here from 1907-1914, (and the census agrees) so this must be before 1908.

My mother had a saying that "Patrick Street Cork would be the finest street in the land if they only took the "Bind" (bend) out of it!!!" You can see the street from right to left down a couple of hundred metres.

Very amusing to note that Paris already brought a flavour of glamour... (Paris Studio)

Another Munster street view which hasn't changed all that markedly in >100 years. Most notable differences are the frontage of St. Patrick's Buildings (the "Paris Photo Studio" building opposite Daunt Sq) and the "extra window" which now bisects the W&B sign. (FYI - Pretty sure the extra window opening was added while still owned by W&B. Certainly it was there in the 80s when the building was converted - by W&B themselves - for use as a fast food place named Mandy's and definitely pre-dates McD's) Lots of historical W&B docs available in UCC Boole library archive. (Always knew W&B were an "institution" in Cork, but didn't know they owned the Oyster Tavern and half of Sheare Street!)

I love this :)

the late General Tom Barry, famous for his exploits in the Cork No.3 Brigade flying column in West Cork during the War of Independence, lived with his wife Leslie (née Price, founder of the Irish Red Cross), in a flat directly over Woodford Bourne for many years. The top window on the left would have been theirs from the 1940s until his death in 1980.