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Explanatory note
- Gaeilge
Ní léir cé acu smock-alley (sofhriotal de chuid an 17ú aois ar lána a mbíodh striapacha ag obair ann agus níos déanaí mar fhocal eile ar fhaighin -- cf. Oxford English Dictionary s.v. smock) nó smoak/smoke (.i. 'deatach') atá i gceist ó cheart.
Is díol spéise go bhfuil idir smock agus smoak/smoke tríd síos sa bhfianaise stairiúil ó 1661 go 1797.
Is é is dóichíde gurb é smock an bunleagan ach moladh gan é a aistriú
Historical references
| 1646 |
Stable-alley
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McCready, Dublin Street Names Leathanach: 119
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| 1659 |
Cadogan's-alley
(Capt. Wm. Cadogan, M.P. for Monaghan, grandfather of the 1st Lord Cadogan, having a house in it)
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McCready, Dublin Street Names Leathanach: 119
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| 1661 |
Smock-alley
[Hughes's S. John's, 134]
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McCready, Dublin Street Names Leathanach: 119
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| 1667 |
Smock-alley
"A corner or cornell house to Smock-alley, slated."
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ASE Leathanach: 97
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| 1673 |
Smock ally
< Historic Dublin Maps
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| 1694 |
Smoak-alley
[S. John's Par. Reg.]
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McCready, Dublin Street Names Leathanach: 119
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| 1694 |
Smoak Alley
"Henry and Sarah Knapton Norris of 'Smoak Alley' had a son, Robert, baptized at St. John's on 5 May 1694 ..."
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William Smith Clark, The Early Irish Stage, Oxford Leathanach: 102
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| 1703-1706 |
Smock (Smoak) alley
"...printing house, Near the Playhouse, or Theatre Royal, Smock (Smoak) alley, Aug. 1703-1706; ..."
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M. Pollard, A Dictionary of Members of the Dublin Leathanach: 152
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| 1704 |
Smoak-Alley
"Reprinted by P. Cosgrave near the Theatre-Royal in Smoak-Alley for J.C. ... 1704-1712"
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| 1704 |
Smoak-Alley
Lord Heversham's Speech in the House of Peers ... Reprinted near the Theatre-Royal in Smoak-Alley ... 1704"
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| 1710 |
Smoke Ally
Flying Post < IHTA
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| 1723 |
Smoak-Alley
"Cardinal Alberoni's Letter to the Abbot of Westminster ... Printed by Tho. Hume in Smoak-Alley ... 1723"
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| 1724 |
Orange-street
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McCready, Dublin Street Names Leathanach: 119
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| 1728 |
Smock A
< Historic Dublin Maps
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| 1736 |
Smoak Alley
"... the Money received at the Theatre in Smoak Alley, for the Benefit of the Charitable Infirmary, amounted to £140 1" (FDJ, 11th Dec. 1736) ..."
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J.C. Greene & Gladys L.H. Clark, The Dublin Stage Leathanach: 196
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| 1741 |
Smock Alley
II, 693
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| 1741 |
Smock-Alley
< Imeachtaí Cúirte an Old Bailey
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| 1785 |
Smoke-Alley
"The School for Scandal: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre, Smoke-Alley ... by Richard Brinsley Sheridan"
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| 1787 |
Smoke-Alley
"Peeping Tom of Coventry: A Comic Opera, as it is Performed at the Theatre Royal, Smoke-Alley; By John O'Keeffe, Samuel Arnold, Mr M'Cready; 1787"
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| 1791 |
Smock Alley
"The School for Scandal: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal, Smock Alley ... by Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1791"
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| 1791 |
Smock-alley
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Wilson's Dublin Directory Leathanach: 8
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| 1791 |
Orange-street, now Smock-alley
"1661, Theatre erected in Orange-street, now Smock-alley", sna 'Historical Annals of the City of Dublin'
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Wilson's Dublin Directory Leathanach: 143
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| 1797 |
Smoke Alley
"The Young Quaker; a Comedy; As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Smoke Alley, with Great Applause; by John O'Keeffe"
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| 1840 |
Essex-street West
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McCready, Dublin Street Names Leathanach: 119
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| 1854 |
Smock-alley
About the period of the Revolution an ineffectual effort was made to give the name of "Orange-street" to Smock-alley, which, since 1830, has been designated "Essex-street West;" but the older residents of the vicinity still universally call it by its original appellation of "Smock-alley."
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Hist. City of Dublin Leathanach: ii, 113
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| 1892 |
Smock-al.
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McCready, Dublin Street Names Leathanach: 119
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