The Geisha Café, the place to meet Japanese ladies?
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We are going to end this week with a photograph from the Edward C. Candler Collection and a busy street scene somewhere???? The full title in the catalogue is "Cobbled street, with shops fronts including 'Geisha Cafe', and crowds walking on footpath" which, to me at least, is as clear as muddy water! Where is it and when was it taken?
Photographers: Edward C. Chandler
Collection: Edward C. Chandler Photographic Collection
Date: Undated
NLI Ref: NPA CHA6
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Photographers: Edward C. Chandler
Collection: Edward C. Chandler Photographic Collection
Date: Undated
NLI Ref: NPA CHA6
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derangedlemur
Thomas St, at a rough guess...
Niall McAuley
Looks like Thomas Street?
derangedlemur
Whoever has the almanacs should look up a few of the traders.
derangedlemur
It's not matching Thomas Street very well.
derangedlemur
Could be Aungier St if the McDowells live over the shop. www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Dublin/Royal_Ex...
Gregory PC
Is it Parnell Street? Looks like where Conways was on the corner.
Gregory PC
goo.gl/maps/c2C1etaHbeqWvsMN7
Gregory PC
Definitely Parnell St. Crolys was still here up to the 70s www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/galleries/002-parne...
Gregory PC
www.dublincity.ie/sites/default/files/galleries/013_parne...
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregcarey Well done! In your 013 pic, I see Brennans beside Crolys, just as in this shot.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
"Laura GORDON was born on 11 Aug 1883 in Grallagh, Fairymount, Co. Roscommon. She died on 7 Feb 1961 in probably Dublin. She was buried in Deansgrange Cemetery, Dublin. It is thought that Laura contracted polio as a child and suffered some disability as a result. She is listed in the 1911 census of Ireland as a boarder at 10 Gardiners Place in Dublin. Her occupation was 'commercial clerk'. At some point Laura ran a café in central Dublin called the "Geisha Café." Later in life she owned property in flats at 11 Lower Hatch Street in Dublin. Laura, who never married, is buried in the same grave in Deansgrange Cemetery as her sisters Ethel, Freda and Ivy." From - www.helensfamilytrees.com/allg24.htm - (about half way down; use 'Find' geisha)
Niall McAuley
This stretch of road is one of the places car-bombed in the 1974 Dublin Monaghan bombings, here killing 10 people and injuring many more.
ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq
Has this got something to do with anything? - a notice on the far corner building - goo.gl/maps/r7SGucZVwrTMfKHZ8 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlireland/34838135954/]
Niall McAuley
Wait, [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregcarey] has this over by Conways - it is indeed Parnell Street, but the far side of O'Connell Street, this is the junction with Marlborough Street: Streetview
Niall McAuley
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia So no, it is not where Pearse surrendered.
Gregory PC
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley yes, sorry, I got Conways mixed up on the location! thanks for the clarification. I forgot that the horrible office block is still there!
John Spooner
Irish Society, Saturday 18 August 1923
John A. Coffey
https://www.flickr.com/photos/beachcomberaustralia ........ This famous photograph was taken on the other side of the street, where The Kingfisher Restaurant is now on the corner of Parnell Sq.
derangedlemur
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregcarey Well done!
National Library of Ireland on The Commons
Thanks https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregcarey and https://www.flickr.com/photos/gnmcauley. I've updated the map and tags/etc to match. What do we think about date? The catalogue entry is listed as "undated", but this is surely turn of the century (give or take). Do the businesses help with dating?
Niall McAuley
Per Mr spooner's find, it's after 1923
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30369211@N00/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/29809546@N00/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ . Mr Spooner's find mentions the Geisha Cafe as "adjoining the Gaiety Theatre". The Gaiety is on South Kings Street. ... t'other side of the Liffey
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With apologies for the red herring above, here is another! - 'The Geisha, a story of a tea house' was a hugely successful two-act musical comedy from 1896 ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geisha The most famous song 'The Amorous Goldfish' - youtu.be/sBsW-gyfsCo Thinking this popular opera may have inspired Geisha Cafés all over the world, including one in Shamrock St, Blackall, Queensland - [https://www.flickr.com/photos/hwmobs/18608959544/in/photolist-2ghAqSq-fsFUMH-umpMm5]via [https://www.flickr.com/photos/hwmobs/] Happy Solstice!
O Mac
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32162360@N00/ Solstice! You can really feel the days closing in and sure Christmas is only 'round the corner.
silverio10
Buenas fotos antiguas .
epicjeff
Photo taken on July 20, 2091? Someone from the future must have used a vintage filter.
Dr. Ilia
wonderful shot!