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Title: Thom's lookup request
Post by: dermo on Thursday 15 September 16 11:21 BST (UK)

If anyone has a Thom's Directory for 1922, I would love to know what, if any, information it has about 2 Upper Camden Street. A granduncle who was interned during the civil war was either living at that address or arrested there in November 1922. Many thanks.

Title: Re: Thom's lookup request
Post by: eadaoin on Thursday 15 September 16 16:06 BST (UK)

Thoms 1922

2 Upper Camden St . . Miss Mary Muldoon

regards Eadaoin

Title: Re: Thom's lookup request
Post by: dermo on Friday 16 September 16 09:19 BST (UK)

Thank you very much Eadaoin for the swift response.  Miss Muldoon obviously is not my granduncle so there is a little mystery to follow up.

Title: Re: Thom's lookup request
Post by: eadaoin on Friday 16 September 16 10:11 BST (UK)

maybe she was his landlady?

Title: Re: Thom's lookup request
Post by: dermo on Friday 16 September 16 10:25 BST (UK)

Eadaoin
That's certainly possible though probably not in the conventional sense.  I'm inclined to think she was providing a 'safe house' for him.  His home was in Ranelagh but I understand he had been on the run in the latter stages of the War of Independence.  When the Civil War broke out he took the anti-Treaty side but, according to his military pension application, had taken no part after the initial weeks.  Nonetheless, he was arrested late in 1922 and interned in the Curragh until mid-1923.  I recently visited the Military Archives where I found he had been arrested in Camden Street along with another IRA man.  The ' home' address on his arrest record was 2 Upper Camden Street instead of his actual home address in Ranelagh.  This makes me think my granduncle wasn't as inactive as he subsequently claimed to be.  Many thanks again for the information.
Kind regards
Dermo