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Foley Street off Talbot St:why so called?

  • 20-10-2013 12:22pm
    #1
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know why Foley Street, which is just off Talbot Street, is called that?


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  • #2
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    tac foley wrote: »
    It's a great name, isn't it? Hit on 'Foley Street' and you'll get 61,000,000 hits.......

    Lots of places are called by that name - in the US of A - Foley Square DC, and even a city in Alabama - http://www.cityoffoley.org/

    But then, I'm biased.

    tac

    Not quite what I am asking about.


  • #3
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Not quite what I am asking about.

    I know that, just a bit of staging around, eh?

    I thought all you people over there had a sense of humour......sigh.

    Sorry about that. I've pulled my post so that you serious people can get on with it.

    tac


  • #4
    Aineoil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,358 ✭✭✭Aineoil


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Anyone know why Foley Street, which is just off Talbot Street, is called that?

    Foley Street used to be called Montgomery Street. It was renamed Foley Street after John Henry Foley, a sculptor.

    JH Foley was born on Montgomery Street, May 1818.


  • #5
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    tac foley wrote: »
    I know that, just a bit of staging around, eh?

    I thought all you people over there had a sense of humour......sigh.

    Sorry about that. I've pulled my post so that you serious people can get on with it.

    tac

    '...you people...' ?


  • #6
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    LionelNashe wrote: »
    It's named after this guy:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Foley

    He was born there when it was called Montgomery Street (which is where the name for the red light district "The Monto" came from.) Before it was Montgomery Street it was "World's End Lane".

    Thanks. Exactly what I was looking for.


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  • #7
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    bobbyss wrote: »
    '...you people...' ?

    Don't misquote me, Sir. I wrote 'you serious people'. Irish people of my exerience in general are a mite less touchy about a little verbal funning than most.

    But then, I 'spose I'm making a wild supposition there, based on my dad and his family, and friends I have in Ireland, all of whom could and can make me laugh a lot.

    Apologies to you if you feel offended by being lumped in as one of the 'serious' Irish people.

    tac


  • #8
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    tac foley wrote: »
    I know that, just a bit of staging around, eh?

    I thought all you people over there had a sense of humour......sigh.

    Sorry about that. I've pulled my post so that you serious people can get on with it.

    tac

    Misquote?


  • #9
    telekon
    Registered Users Posts: 4,425 ✭✭✭telekon


    bobbyss wrote: »
    Misquote?

    Ah, just stop it will you. You got your answer.


    Tac is sound.


  • #10
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,614 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Wasn't Foley the sculptor of the O'Connell Monument?

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #11
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,189 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Wasn't Foley the sculptor of the O'Connell Monument?

    Yes I believe he may have been.

    By that way, while I am at it, anybody know why Mabel Street (near Croke Park) is called that? I think the only ever manager of Barcelona was born there. Of course it may well have changed name since then.

    Thanks in advance.


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