Dubliner Cyril Griffith was only 19 when his life took a turn A trip to Howth proved life-changing for Cyril Griffith and Margaret Mary Hayes. Photo: Getty It was a bright July morning when 19-year-old Cyril Griffith and a friend set off for Howth. As the fifth of seven children living with his parents, younger brother and sister in the family home on Eccles Street in Dublin, going away for a night’s camping at the weekend had become something of a trend for Griffith and other teenagers living in the inner city in the 1920s.
Griffith had been working as a leather trade apprentice at Messrs Mullen Brothers on Capel Street, earning £1 a week..
