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May all of the gods smile on whoever put the sign in Sheehy’s shop window that says:
Skibbereen Athletic Sports
and Bicycle Races
Town Park
Monday, 28th Sept.
Any of you got one of those snazzy day/year calculators for when 28th September fell on a Monday around the 1880s/1890/1900s-ish?
Plus,would you say that’s Mr Sheehy standing in the doorway? That gentleman looks mighty proprietorial…
Plus Plus: Amazingly rare sighting of a cat in one of our early photos…
Plus Plus Plus: This is an image rejected by William Lawrence as not quite up to the company’s usual standard, yet it’s possible to make out the name on the stonemason on the base of the monument!
Date: 1900?
NLI Ref.: L_NS_00001
easycalculation.com/date-day/day-of-year.php
A Cat – Amazing, yea right !
Either 1879, 1885, 1891, 1896, 1903, … …
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06] And a dog. You like dogs.
You beat me to it [http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia/] – you can add 1908 to that list.
Streetview
This very rare photograph was taken on the occasion of the unveiling of the “Maid of Erin” National Monument in the Square, Skibbereen, on Sunday, November 27, 1904
So After Nov 27th 1904.
could have been on show before the official opening
See Picture at end of page
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/77199267@N03] [http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] and 1914! (outer limit of dates for our Lawrence Collection)
So, 1879; 1885; 1891; 1896; 1903; 1908; 1914?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia] Thank you, Sir
The monument doesn’t feature on the 1899 OS Map
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06] No sulking, Mr, there’s one of those animals you’re fond of too if you look hard enough!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] And a Dog – 90% Amazeballs!
So must be 1908 or 1914 then, if the statue was unveiled in 1904, according to [http://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06] ?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06] Do you mean not before 1904 or have I misunderstood something?
Edit: You and your sneaky editing!
A cat, a dog, a horse…
Where’s the Skibbereen Eagle?
The DIA says that fancy post office dates from 1902-1905
Oh, Father dear, I oft times hear you speak of Erin’s Isle,
Her lofty scene, her valleys green, her mountains rude and wild
They say it is a pretty place where in a prince might dwell,
Oh, why did you abandon it, the reason to me tell?
There’s some sort of commotion down the street behind the monument but it doesn’t look particularly like recruitment. Besides, nobody could look so proprietorial about wartime whiskey. I’d say 1908.
This is the closest you get on Streetview.
Pan to the right and Crowley’s shopfront is still much the same, but the door has been moved slightly. Now called C. Connelly.
Though we do know that 1914 had nice weather in september across most of Europe.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] It would have been very early in the war if it was 1914 and the effects may not have hit Skibbereen yet.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] Smiles….
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/77199267@N03] Considering that the invention of the bicycle or any other datable technology doesn’t seem to have reached there yet, you could be right. One measely gas lamp and that’s it!
And you were only two years old and feeble was your frame,
I could not leave you with your friends, you bore your father’s name,
I wrapped you in my cóta mór in the dead of night unseen
I heaved a sigh and said goodbye to dear old Skibbereen
Saturday 5th September 1908, the Southern Star has a mention of "Skibbereen Cycling and Athletic Sports…" and then the paywall at the Irish Newspaper Archive
Who needs Twitter when you have this place!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] – have I got the right dog?
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/8468254@N02] Britain didn’t enter the war until 22nd August 1914
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/38401430@N06] Yes Bill, thats the tail of the right dog okay!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland] Mr Sheehy is probably wondering why the two groups are engaged in whatever they are doing and not enbibing some of his fine Jamesons!
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/swordscookie] Notes removed accordingly!
The Crowleys in the 1911 census.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] I’ve found a similar result in 1912 – could be an annual event although I can’t find a 1914 reference
I think from the shadows that this one in the archive with the monument and town hall was taken just minutes later.
Definitely too early for the sports in question, but Freeman’s had a report of Skibbereen Sports which was held on July 6th 1898
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnspooner] I wonder did the the bould Thady Quill take part 🙂
John Maguire (retired stonecutter) and Joseph Maguire (stonecutter) are at Douglas Street in the 1901 census
Mulgrave Road could have been the location of their workshop. At the time Mulgrave Road included what is now John Redmond Street where there is a cemetery (behind the Maldron Hotel)
Can’t find either in 1911 census
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/77199267@N03] Daughter in Laws aged 2, 4 and 7 interesting!!!!
I’m fairly sure that’s Tim Sheehy , future father of the Dáil, standing in the shop doorway going by the link posted by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06/] earlier
Here’s his 1901 census entry http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cork/Skibbereen...
and 1911 entry http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Cork/Skibbereen...
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/79549245@N06] didn’t spot that! 🙂 granddaughters obviously
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley] There’re a couple of mentions of the Sports, but really more adverts. They took place under G.A.A. rules, apparently!
No mention of sports in the 1914 issues…