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From the Queen agreeing in principle to a request of Dom Francois.

A view of a bookseller’s stall on Dublin’s Quays in about 1945.

An illuminated certificate solemnizing the marriage of Henrietta Sophia Pike and Reginald Ryley. The couple were married in the Quaker Meeting House on Grattan Street in Cork on 9 September 1875. Individuals from many prominent Quaker families in Cork are listed among the witnesses to the marriage including the Penroses of Woodhill, the Haughtons of Cleve Hill, and the Beales of Patrick’s Quay. Perhaps the most famous Irish business founded by Quakers is Bewley’s established in 1840, initially as tea and coffee merchants. Both Sophia Bewley and Joseph Bewley are also listed among the ninety-one witnesses.

A print showing the ‘Long Hall’ and the clock tower of the Quadrangle in Queen’s University College, Cork.