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On 6 June 1890, Switzer & Company was incorporated under the chairmanship of John Wright Switzer. This company had begun as a drapers and tailors in 1838 at 91 Grafton Street, Dublin, and as it expanded it moved to Commercial Hall on the corner of Grafton Street and Wicklow Street. These new premises allowed for the business to develop into a ...
Brown Thomas & Company Limited is a chain of five upmarket department stores in Ireland, with two located in Dublin, and one each in Cork, Galway, and Limerick.Together with Dublin's Arnotts department store, it is owned by UK-based Selfridges, which in turn is owned by Thai Conglomerate Central Group and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF).
The Irish Girl by Ford Maxon Brown, 1860. Traditional Irish clothing is the traditional attire which would have been worn historically by Irish people in Ireland. During the 16th-century Tudor conquest of Ireland, the Dublin Castle administration prohibited many of Ireland’s clothing traditions. [1]
Airside Retail Park (Irish: Páirc Miondíolaíochta Thaobh an Aerfoirt [1]) is a retail park that opened in 2001 in Swords, Dublin, close to Dublin Airport. An extension was built in 2005, which doubled the size of the park and included a new recycling centre. [2] As of October 2018, there were 30 shops and businesses based at the site. [3]
An Oxford shoe is a type of shoe characterized by shoelace eyelet tabs that are attached under the vamp, [1] a feature termed "closed lacing". [2] This contrasts with Derbys , or bluchers , which have shoelace eyelets attached to the top of the vamp. [ 3 ]
The Encyclopaedia of Dublin. Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-717-13684-1. Casey, Christine (2005). Dublin: The City Within the Grand and Royal Canals and the Circular Road with the Phoenix Park. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-30010-923-8. Clerkin, Paul (2001). Dublin street names. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. ISBN 0-7171-3204-8. OCLC 48467800.
A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin is a set of 25 architectural prints of well-known buildings and views in Dublin, Ireland illustrated by the engraver, watercolourist, and draughtsman James Malton at the end of the 18th century. At the time of drawing in 1791, many of the buildings had been newly constructed and marked a ...