Christina O'Flynn's mother and her maternal grand parents
Photograph courtesy of Chris O'Flynn of the Ballinasloe Active Retirement Association
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Short's Market was a multi-purpose shop that was a butchers, a grocer and a store that sold alcohol. The premises was located on Main Street at the corner with Church Street in Carrickmacross.
My grandfather Peter Agnew is the man in the centre of the photograph holding a meat cleaver. He was then 17 or 18 years old.
He was the son of Thomas and Eliza (neé Eccles) Agnew of Lattylanigan (Irish = Leacht Uí Fhlannagáin = Water of the Flanagans). Not long afterwards, Peter emigrated to Philadelphia to join his brother who had left Ireland in the 1890s. He returned to Ireland in the 1920s.
The store was owned by Dundalk native Francis Short who had worked in Manchester until his forties when he returned to his birth place and established a group of stores in Dundalk and Carrickmacross during the 1890's.
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The grocery belonged to my grandparents Peter & Mary Agnew. My mother (1932-2015) Brigid (on right in photo) aka 'Bridie' was a great organiser and had a fantastic repore with the public. She was eighteen years old when the photo was taken. The other lady's name is Betty Lambert. The shop was located on Fitzroy Avenue. Though it catered for the local population it benefited immensely from being situated near to and along the route to the Croke Park GAA sports stadium. Match days were exceptionally busy times.
Notice the fully stocked shelves with well known contemporary brand names and products such as Bisto gravy, Bird's Tea Cakes, Fry's Cocoa, Glycerine, Robin Starch and Mrs Cullen's Powders.
A weighing scales is on shop counter, to the front left of the photo.
Fitzroy Avenue was typical of the Drumcondra of that period made up of rows of small two story red brick houses that were built during the late Victorian - Edwardian era.
My grandparents moved from Drumcondra in 1957 to Macken Street where they also owned a grocery business.
They were originally from Lattylanigan in Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan. They and my parents returned to Carrickmacross in 1970.
Brendan Smith
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Photograph courtesy of the Ballinasloe Active Retirement Association
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Gullane's shop is now a hotel.
Photograph courtesy of the Gullane family and the Ballinasloe Active Retirement Association
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