Paddy’s Home
Paddy Flaherty was born in Cork in 1850, the eldest son of Daniel J O ‘Flaherty and his wife Anne M.B. Long. He attended the day school at which his father taught, at 7 Maylor Street, in the centre of Cork city.

Paddy was presumably influenced by his mother’s family, who were publicans, as he decided to join the Cork Distilleries Company as a traveller in December 1882 at a salary of £150 a year. One year into his job he moved to a house on the Blackrock Road, which he named after his favourite song ‘Carraigdhoun’.