O' Mahonys

Well, here we are after 119 years in the business of selling books and while some of the staff are planning our 120-year anniversary celebration at 120 O’Connell Street, I am here planning what kind of party we should have to celebrate our two hundredth anniversary. You can never be too well prepared for these things! My grandfather J.P. O'Mahony started the business in 1902. It seems his feathers were a bit ruffled when he was not made general manager of Cannock's; a very large department store in Limerick. He had even gone to the bother of marrying my grandmother Marguerite Winifred Clery, the niece of M.J. Clery, the man who at a certain stage in his life owned Cannock’s in Limerick as well as the well- known Clery’s Department Store in Dublin. He was also a business partner of Peter Tate in Limerick, making uniforms for soldiers in the American Civil war. Most people have heard of Cannocks, or, at least, its famous clock. It sadly closed its doors for the final time a few years ago.

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