End of an era with passing of man who sold cashmere in Dublin for more than 60 years
At the time, Irish people “didn’t really know what cashmere was but the Americans loved it,” he told The Irish Times several years ago. “We sold mountains of cashmere jumpers for £5 and five shillings – that was $15.”Among his customers over the years have been many of Ireland’s leading politicians and celebrities, as well as Maureen O’Hara, Maureen Potter, Ronnie Drew and Jamie Lee Curtis.
Almost until the very end, Suzanne, who took over the running of the shop only last year, brought him in most mornings and then home again in the evenings and he would spend his time in the back office taking calls and occasionally popping out to the shop floor when long-standing customers and old friends came in.“He was so involved and it is amazing that for such an elderly man, he had such a great relationship with everybody around him,” she told The Irish Times.
She said that – as her father would have wanted – the shop would keep going. “Monaghan’s will always be there and his picture will be hanging inside the door. There’s always going to be people who want that really good quality cashmere.”
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