Pocket watch Hopkins & Hopkins, Hopkins and Hopkins

Pocket watch Hopkins & Hopkins, Hopkins and Hopkins is held by Digital Repository of Ireland. Museum description: Gents’ silver ‘Waltham’ pocket watch purchased c. 1916 by Florence J. Burke (1878 – 1972), a racehorse owner from Kildare town in Hopkins and Hopkins, jewellers , silversmiths, and watchmakers, 1 O’Connell [formerly Sackville] Street Lower, Dublin.; This shop, located at the corner of O’Connell Street and Eden Quay, was occupied by members of the Kimmage Garrison, a group of Irish Volunteers mainly from Scotland and England, during Easter Week 1916. Burke knew the shop’s then and managing director, Diarmuid F. O’Leary, and recently deceased founder and owner Myles R. Hopkins, through their mutual friendship with Sinn Féin founder, Sean T. O’Kelly (1882 – 1966). Hopkins was one a number of friends who acted as financial backers for Sinn Féin’s weekly newspaper.; By Friday April 29, only the roofline scars of Hopkins and Hopkins’ building remained following shelling of the area by Royal Na The museum record gives place associated: #Dublin,_Ireland; #Eden_Quay_(Dublin,_Ireland); maker recorded: Hopkins and Hopkins. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.