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John “Sonny” Foley aged 42 conducted a busy General Store in this premises, the second last in the row of houses on the north side of the street. He sold groceries, hardware, some agricultural implements and harness etc. as well as some items of drapery and haberdashery and even supplied paraffin oil for lamps and heaters. The upstairs parlour was often the venue for meetings of the fledgling local Sinn Féin party of which he was a founder member. Cathal Brugha, a representative of of Lawlor Candelmakers Ltd., Dublin, later to be elected MP/TD for Co.Waterford was often there on commercial as well as political business around that time, prior to the Insurrection that Easter in Dublin in which he played a prominent role wit the Irish Volunteers. Cathal Brugha was actually a director of the firm which supplied candles etc. to most of the churches in the country. John Foley’s sister, “Lizzie” lived there with him until his death in 1924, when she took over the running of the shop.
