Streets Of Dublin

SWORDS DISTRICT COURT HOUSE

September 12, 2023 by infomatique

I DID NOT REALISE THAT THIS BUILDING WAS STILL IN USE

I was highly amused when I checked online and discovered that it actually was reviewed and universally awarded on star and described as a “kip”.

The Swords District Courthouse is located at 4 North Street, Swords, County Dublin, Ireland. It is a cut limestone building that was designed by Alexander Tate and was built in 1845. The courthouse is a Grade A protected structure.

The Swords District Courthouse hears a variety of cases, including criminal, civil, and family law cases. It also hears cases under the Mental Health Act and the Children Act.

The courthouse is open from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Monday to Friday. The public can access the courthouse during these hours.

ST MAGDALEN TERRACE AND OLIVER PLUNKETT AVENUE

August 31, 2023 by infomatique

STELLA GARDENS IN IRISHTOWN

Stella Gardens was part of a major house-building campaign initiated in Irishtown and Ringsend by the nationalist councillor Charles O’Neill in the early 20th century. It is claimed by some locals that O’Neill named the development after his daughter Stella.

St Magdalene of Canossa was born in Verona, Italy, on 2 March 1774. At age 15 she announced she wished to become a nun, but after trying out her vocation with the Carmelites, she realised she really wanted to serve the needy without restriction. She began a charitable organisation to help the wounded and the sick, but gave special attention to girls living in poverty and those who had been abandoned.

Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot. He was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, thus becoming the first new Irish saint in almost seven hundred years.

The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria. Oates alleged that there was an extensive Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II, accusations that led to the executions of at least 22 men and precipitated the Exclusion Bill Crisis. During this tumultuous period, Oates weaved an intricate web of accusations, fueling public fears and paranoia. However, as time went on, the lack of substantial evidence and inconsistencies in Oates’s testimony began to unravel the plot. Eventually, Oates himself was arrested and convicted for perjury, exposing the fabricated nature of the conspiracy.

DERMOT O’HURLEY AVENUE

August 31, 2023 by infomatique

STELLA GARDENS IN IRISHTOWN

Blessed Dermot O’ Hurley was an archbishop who was tortured and martyred in 1584 AD at the age of 54 years. He was born to a wealthy family in Ballyneety, County Limerick and spent time in Belgium and France studying. He received a doctorate in law and began teaching in a university for some years. In 1581 Dermot, while still only a layman was appointed by Pope Gregory XIII to be the archbishop of Cashel. He was immediately ordained and consecrated, then returned to Ireland. He managed to get smuggled into the country under an alias and stayed with Catholic families keeping his identity a secret. However he was soon betrayed and handed over to the authorities. Dermot was captured at Carrick-on-Suir and was imprisoned. He adamantly refused to take the Oath of Supremacy or to reveal the whereabouts of other clergy. His torturers, among other atrocious acts put his his feet in a stocks and burned them over a slow fire. Despite his immense sufferings Bishop Dermot remained steadfast and refused to renounce his faith. On 20 June 1584 he was hanged on Hoggen Green, outside the walls of Dublin. His grave is located at St. Kevin’s Church, Camden Row, Dublin

THE CANTON HOUSE CHINESE RESTAURANT

August 31, 2023 by infomatique

IRISHTOWN ROAD

Irishtown is an inner suburb of Dublin, Ireland. It is situated on the south side of the River Liffey, between Ringsend to the north and Sandymount to the south, and is to the east of the River Dodder.

Irishtown Nature Park is a small park with a walkway which offers several kilometres of walking trails along the Poolbeg Peninsula.

ANOTHER VISIT TO GREAT STRAND STREET

August 30, 2023 by infomatique

THIS TIME I USED A CANNON 5D MkIII

Today I could not get the GPS unit on my Canon 5D to function correctly so when I thought I had solved the problem I visited Strand Street in order to test it. Unfortunately it was intermittent but when I got to the end of the street I decided to purchase a pack of batteries and much to my surprise replacing the battery resolved the apparent problem.

There is also a Little Grand Street, off Capel Street, which could be described as a continuation of Great Grand Street. While the street appears to be nothing more than an ugly back land it may well become much more important when Liffey Street and Capel street become fully pedestrianised and because a large nomber of hotels are expected to become operational within the next year or two. Also the area in general is becoming an alternative to Temple Bar on the other side of the river.

Strand Street formed part of the Jervis Estate formed by Humphrey Jervis, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1681-3, who laid out the area around Saint Mary’s Abbey after buying much of this estate in 1674. Jervis developed a network of streets arranged in a nine-square grid, including Jervis Street, Stafford Street (now Wolfe Tone Street), and Capel Street, as well as building Essex Bridge.

The Strand Street Institute was built in 1868 by John McCurdy for the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), at a time when working and middle class education was being promoted throughout the country in the form of working men’s clubs and institutes like this one.

The nineteenth-century meetinghouse is bounded to the north, east and west by modern late twentieth and early twenty-first-century apartment blocks and offices, each matching the tall height of the meeting house. It is an important building to conserve on this street where twentieth-century buildings threaten the historic eighteenth and nineteenth-century industrial character. The building’s unique identity is preserved in the overall form and fenestration layout and through the retention of a number of important roof elements such as the timber eaves brackets. The quality of the rubble stone walls which, while not cut or shaped, have been drawn to regular courses, stands as a testament to the engineering of local craftsmen.