Christy Bird
- Mar 10, 2017
- 1 min read
The flag of the Irish Republic flies over one of the oldest shops on Richmond Street. Grace Gifford, wife of Joseph Plunkett, lived in the rooms above and died here on the 13th of December, 1955.
Great bit of history to the shop too. The owner served during the 1916 Easter Revolution and bore witness to the Bloody Sunday Massacre in Croke Park.
"In 1945 the manager of the pawnbroker on Charlemount mall retired. He had moved to Dublin from Trim, Co Meath in 1908 to take up his apprenticeship. Having lived in various accommodations within the Charlemount and Portobello area he finally settled in upper Lesson Street, where he lived and raised his family over the next forty years.
He served and survived the 1916 Easter rising and he also was on Hill 16, Croke park when the Black and Tans arrived without tickets on Bloody Sunday. He helped to lay the foundations of this nation."
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