Peggy Keogh Passes Away

Prefab Sprouter · 06-01-2011 4:19pm #1

Hi all, Just wanted to let you know that Peggy Keogh has passed on this morning. Who is Peggy Keogh I hear you ask?

Peggy ran a shoe stall at the back of the Ilac Centre. It was noted because Peggy sold Doctor Martens Boots there. She was the only one of the stalls to do so. If you bought your Docs at the back of the Ilac then you bought them from Peggy's. Countless Dubliners got their first Docs from Peggy. Larry Mullen used to buy his Crepes from her. when you went around there for shoes you ended up staying for a chat! she was that type of lady.

So spare a thought today for a real Dublin Character who has passed on today.

If this is in the wrong area I'm sorry.

r3nu4l · 06-01-2011 4:31pm

Ah I remember her well and yes, I bought Docs from her more than once at the back of the Ilac

RIP Peggy.

penana · 06-01-2011 6:51pm

Never met the lady, but she sounds like a marvellous person.
God rest her soul.

arybvtcw0eolkf · 06-01-2011 6:56pm

Bought my first Doc's from her too!.

I can still remember her voice, and the craic.

R.I.P. a legend passes.

salvidor · 06-01-2011 7:21pm

Page on Facebook for your memories.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Wear-Your-Docs-For-Peggy/184168638277334?v=info

She'll be missed.

breadandjam · 06-01-2011 8:08pm

Yeah bought my first pair of Docs there too.

cosmic · 06-01-2011 8:13pm

Our school shoes were bought from her every year growing up. She really was an institution. Sad to hear of her passing.

meolwan · 07-01-2011 12:15am

RIP Peggy. Bought many a pair of Doc's off her she also sold me my 1st pair of George Webbs. Always went to her 1st when looking for boots & shoes. Always had a laugh with her and all of the stall holders there.
Miss all that now not the same in the Ilac centre anymore.

dubtom · 07-01-2011 12:52am

Got my first pair of Docs from Peggy too, sorry to hear of her demise.

silvereyes · 07-01-2011 1:15pm

Really sad to hear that...I'm 35 and one of my earliest memories is of Peggy holding me while my dad tried on Doc boots...I could only have been about 2. I always bought my doc shoes (for school) from her and a pair of boots every few years until she left the Ilac...RIP Peggy

frantic190 · 07-01-2011 1:58pm

RIP Peggy, Dublin loses a true legend!

Inbox · 07-01-2011 2:11pm

Ah now that lady brings back memories,I bought my first pair of 8 hole Docs there,I wasn't mad enough or tough enough for a 10 hole pair :pac:

I used to go in with my mam and we'd get a few euro off,I'm guess because my mam is from Chancery street so I wonder was Peggy from around there?

RIP Peggy!

07-01-2011 2:39pm

RIP.

Have put up a brief piece on the blog - http://comeheretome.wordpress.com/2011/01/07/peggy-keogh-rip/

salvidor · 07-01-2011 5:24pm

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Inbox wrote: »

Ah now that lady brings back memories,I bought my first pair of 8 hole Docs there,I wasn't mad enough or tough enough for a 10 hole pair :pac:

I used to go in with my mam and we'd get a few euro off,I'm guess because my mam is from Chancery street so I wonder was Peggy from around there?

RIP Peggy!

She as born and reared on Moore street and later moved to the Cabra road, and lived out ter later life in Blackrock.

stovelid · 07-01-2011 8:55pm

Bought many a pair of shoes and boots (also a pair of suede crepe soles IIRC!) at that stall. Another part of Dublin gone forever. RIP.

Yakuza · 07-01-2011 9:02pm

I bought my first pair of docs from her in Nov 1989. RIP.

marcsignal · 07-01-2011 9:35pm

bought my first, and many subsequent pairs of DMs from peggy over the years

R.I.P.

stovelid · 07-01-2011 9:36pm

meolwan wrote: »

my 1st pair of George Webbs.

Now there's a memory.

A pair of Georgies.

Dyr · 07-01-2011 10:35pm

Whatever happened to george webbs?

I bought me first pair of doc's off her, didn't know who she was or anything just knew that was where all me mates had gotten their doc's from.

Those doc's took the bloody ankles offa me, wound up in casualty a few weeks later :pac:

stovelid · 07-01-2011 10:41pm

Bambi wrote: »

Whatever happened to george webbs?

Have no clue. Think I got mine in Simon Hart?! Haven't seen them since I was a kid. For anybody who doesn't know them, they were a lace-up shoe with a kind of cap toe that were really big amongst teenagers in the early 80s (and I assume before that) in Dublin.

I remember two lads - no more than 13 or 14 - having a digging match on my street once and the lad that was getting the worst of it ran off home "to put on his Georgies" which obviously would have instantly transformed him into a killing machine,

The Muppet · 07-01-2011 10:43pm

A lovely lady, I remember her well. R.I.P.

Dyr · 07-01-2011 10:47pm

I did some web digging on them a while back..they came from some small town in England. George Webbs were things of awe to us when we were 10 or 11. A boot from a George Webb with steel caps could be fatal according to lore

arybvtcw0eolkf · 07-01-2011 10:51pm

I got two pair of George Webbs off her two. A tan ankle boot (slip on) and black shoes, and boy could you get a shine on those bad boys!.

meolwan · 07-01-2011 11:23pm

Kaiya Gray Kiwi wrote: »

I got two pair of George Webbs off her two. A tan ankle boot (slip on) and black shoes, and boy could you get a shine on those bad boys!.

I was shown by a mates older brother how to melt the shoe polish so we could get a real shine on the George Webbs. You could see your face in them lol.

All of my mates bought our Docs & Shoes from Peggy and go down to Spiders Web to get the rest of the gear to go with them.

Ahhhhhhh the 70s what a great time no money but still had lots of fun and part of it was going into town from Coolock on a saturday to buy the gear & have the banter with peggy and the others ladies in those stalls.

Mahou · 08-01-2011 12:02am

RIP God bless her, she was a great woman. The place to go for the Docs alright

arybvtcw0eolkf · 08-01-2011 12:49am

meolwan wrote: »

Ahhhhhhh the 70s what a great time no money but still had lots of fun and part of it was going into town from Coolock on a saturday to buy the gear & have the banter with peggy and the others ladies in those stalls.

You've just brought me back to Doc's, and Skinheads in The Classic barbers!.

Nevyn · 08-01-2011 12:55am

Ah bless, may she rest in peace and may her family find consolation.

Bought my first Docs there, had to save up from my first summers job the parents utterly disproved of them and several pairs after that, she was a sound lady.

RMD · 08-01-2011 2:50am

Being only a young lad I obviously never knew her. But by the responses I'm seeing in this thread it seems like a true personality and memorable person has passed. It's a shame that many of the true great traditional Dubs are fading away and few are replacing them.

RIP Peggy.

tricky D · 08-01-2011 3:00pm

Jebus. Still have my 2nd pair of George Webbs from over half a lifetime ago which I might possibly have got off her. Dusty, a bit worn at the heel and in need of breaking in again, but otherwise fine. Got those from either her or Simon Harts. I defo got my first pair of GWs and about 3 Docs from her.

I remember always walking past all the other ladies there straight to her stall - last one on the right iirc.

RIP

marcsignal · 08-01-2011 8:22pm

tricky D wrote: »

Jebus. Still have my 2nd pair of George Webbs from over half a lifetime ago which I might possibly have got off her.

Same here ! Still wear them for weddings... and funerals...

They're like the shoe version of a VW Beetle. If you look after them they'll go forever

OutlawPete · 09-01-2011 9:46am

Bought loads of footwear from her over the years and she would always give you a discount if you were buying two pairs or more.

Usually Black Leather Crepes (to go with the Y Cardigan, Stay Press Trousers and white socks

).

Had a few mates who were cure heads and they would order some mad (almost knee high) Docs (in some strange and rare colours) but she would always get them.

We won't see her like again, that's for sure.

RIP.

Peggy Keogh Passes Away

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