Jackie Gorman

The present Monaghan Street Hairdresser Hugh Gorman has in his possession the original bill of transfer of his salon from the then owner, Bridget McCullagh of 43 Monaghan Street, to his grandfather Tom in 1933. 

The latter lady was your editor’s grandmother, and the Barber’s Shop had originally been run by her son-in-law Joseph Vickers. He was the grandfather of Marie and Joan, sisters who married two brothers McEvoy from Derrybeg Drive and who settled in married life in adjacent homes in Mourneview Park, where they still live.

The lease then was for the sum of

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