Where in Kingstown (Dun Laoghaire)?

[SoylentGreen]

I came across an old postcard with a stamp on the back that said "R. Morrow's Public Library Kingstown."

I would be interested if anyone knows of this library and where it might have been located. I believe the card is from the 1860's.

 

[Deiseblue]

Dun Laoghaire was known as Kingstown until 1920

 

[dub_nerd]

Thom's Irish Almanac and Official Directory of Ireland, 1868 has a couple of entries for R Morrow in Kingstown, but you have to pay for access. The same publication for 1862 lists:

Morrow, Hamilton, British and foreign library, bookseller and stationer, and 16, 17, 18, 19, & 20 South Frederick-street, 71 Upper George's-street, Kingstown, and 91 Patrick-street, Cork

Maybe a relative or parent?

 

[Deiseblue]

Branches in Nassau Street & South Frederick Street in Dublin.

The Kingstown branch was also a ticket office where you could buy Vaudeville tickets & indeed tickets for Madame Ernestinas clairvoyant show !

 

[SoylentGreen]

Thanks that is good info.

What I have is an old CDV photo of a picture of The Angel of Ressurection. I am not sure where the original portrait hangs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_de_visite.

It appears that our friend also sold photos as well as being a book seller and ticket agent. The picture has the stamp of the London photographers on the back with his R. Morrow stamp stuck over it.