Taken from Irish Independent on 6th April 2022

It was like a community centre

locals remember popular Sheriff Street sweet shop Mattie’s at new exhibition.

Growing up in her family’s sweet shop on Sheriff Street, Maria McGrane believed she was the luckiest child in Dublin.
Her cherished memories of Mattie’s shop – and the tightknit north inner city community it served – are the inspiration behind the Pride of Place exhibition, running this week at the CHQ as part of the Five Lamps Arts Festival.

The exhibition includes up to 70 images of people from the area who regularly bought their penny bars or bags of sweets at the shop when they were children.

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*Taken from Irish Independent website (click here ) and article write by Tony McCullagh Wednesday 6th April 2022 .

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