I was very disappointed to read of the closure and liquidation of the Roman House. For my generation, it was always there.
But no longer.
It wasn’t a shop that one attended every week but I suspect that many of my years would have been a customer for a Holy Communion Book; Mass Cards; Memorial Cards; or, little bits of jewellery.
Maybe it is the change in the importance of religious practice; maybe it is a factor of online competition; maybe it was a factor of not replacing the reducing demand with new product; or, maybe there are many other reasons for the failure of this company.
If in Cork, do walk down North Main Street and see if you can picture a bustling trading street – to do so, you may need to have the power of ‘Back to the Future’.
But no longer.
It wasn’t a shop that one attended every week but I suspect that many of my years would have been a customer for a Holy Communion Book; Mass Cards; Memorial Cards; or, little bits of jewellery.
Maybe it is the change in the importance of religious practice; maybe it is a factor of online competition; maybe it was a factor of not replacing the reducing demand with new product; or, maybe there are many other reasons for the failure of this company.
If in Cork, do walk down North Main Street and see if you can picture a bustling trading street – to do so, you may need to have the power of ‘Back to the Future’.
