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WEST ARRAN STREET – BENBURB STREET – HENDRICK STREET – QUEEN STREET

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SMITHFIELD AREA OF DUBLIN 17 FEBRUARY 2024

The weather was not good today and it got worse as the day progressed.

Hendrick Street was named after its developer, William Hendrick, who bought up land in the area in the 1720s and leased it to builders. In the 19th century, Hendrick Street became known for its leather and hide businesses.

Queen Street is named after Queen Anne, who reigned from 1702 to 1714

Benburb Street was once named Barrack Street, reflecting its proximity to the former Royal Barracks (now Collins Barracks). The section closer to Queen Street was called Tighe Street, while the part near Smithfield was known as Gravel Walk. Historically the immediate area was associated with prostitution due to its location near the barracks, a reputation that lingered until the late 1990s.

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FRANCIS BACON LIVED HERE

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HE WAS BORN IN 1909 AT NUMBER 63 LOWER BAGGOT STREET

A few days ago I mentioned that Francis Bacon was born in 1909 at 63 Lower Baggot Street and today I was asked if I could supply any photographs of the house. As luck would have it I photographed the house and the plaque less than a week ago.

Francis Bacon was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures

Baggot street runs from Merrion Row (near St. Stephen’s Green) to the northwestern end of Pembroke Road. It crosses the Grand Canal near Haddington Road. It is divided into two sections:

Lower Baggot Street – between Merrion Row and the Grand Canal. It was called Gallows Road in the 18th century.
Upper Baggot Street – south of the Grand Canal until the junction with Eastmoreland Place, where it continues as Pembroke Road.
Lower Baggot Street is distinguished by Georgian architecture, while Upper Baggot Street has mainly Victorian architecture with a few buildings of 20th century vintage. The Royal City of Dublin Hospital, Baggot Street, opened in 1834, is on the east side of Upper Baggot Street, just south of the junction with Haddington Road. Cook’s Map of 1836 shows the north side of Upper Baggot Street and Pembroke Road almost entirely built on.

The Sheares Brothers, members of the Society of United Irishmen, who died in the 1798 rebellion, lived at no. 128.
In 1830, Thomas Davis, the revolutionary Irish writer who was the chief organiser and poet of the Young Ireland movement, lived at 67 Lower Baggot Street.

Catherine McAuley, a nun, founded the Sisters of Mercy order in 1831 and built what is now the Mercy International Centre on Lower Baggot Street where she later died in 1841.

In 1909, Francis Bacon was born at 63 Lower Baggot Street.

The poet Patrick Kavanagh frequented Baggot Street and regarded it as his favourite place in Dublin. In his poem “If ever you go to Dublin Town” Kavanagh addresses Dubliners 100 years after his own time and tells them to “Inquire for me in Baggot Street/And what I was like to know”.

Singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor has a property here.

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HOW DARE YOU CALL ME KITTY

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BRONZE LIONESS BY DAVIDE RIVALTA IN THE UPPER COURTYARD DUBLIN CASTLE

I photographed this again as I really like it. It looks black but up close it is obvious that it is bronze.

Original sculptures by Italian artist Davide Rivalta are on display in Dublin Castle and Lucan.

The exhibition, called Grazing in Lucan is a collaboration between Rome’s National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art and Dublin Castle.

Bronze buffalos are ‘grazing’ in the green park of Lucan House, the residence of the Ambassador of Italy in Ireland, while the courtyard square of Dublin Castle features a bronze lioness.

Davide Rivalta is an Italian artist who was born in 1974. Numerous key galleries and museums such as La Galleria Nazionale have featured Davide Rivalta’s work in the past.

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WOLFE TONE OR IS IT TONEHENGE BY EDWARD DELANEY

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I LIKE THE SETTING AT THE CORNER OF STEPHEN’S GREEN

Directly behind this Wolfe Tone Memorial in St Stephens Green is Edward Delaney’s Famine Memorial. It should be noted that the local name for the statue is “Tonehenge”

Edward Delaney (1930 – 22 September 2009) was an Irish sculptor born in Claremorris in County Mayo in 1930. His best known works include the 1967 statue of Wolfe Tone and famine memorial at the northeastern corner of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin and the statue of Thomas Davis in College Green, opposite Trinity College Dublin. These are both examples of lost-wax bronze castings, his main technique during the 1960s and early 1970s.

Though they do exhibit some of his trademark expressionism, the statues of Wolfe Tone and Thomas Davis are less abstract than was most of his work at the time; the famine memorial is more typical in this regard. However, arts writer Judith Hill points out that these statues make no attempt at an exact likeness of the figures they portray, instead, they communicate the public stature of their subjects and, indeed, the public role of memorial statues through their proportions and scale.In this way, it is argued, they mark the transition from memorial and public art.

What all Edward Delaney’s work shares is robustness, in an Irish Times review of his 2004 retrospective, arts writer Aidan Dunne described his bronzes as robust, but having an awkwardness, a tenderness about them.

From 1980 onwards, Edward Delaney concentrated on large scale environmental pieces and stainless steel works in Carraroe, County Galway. The Royal Hibernian Academy held a retrospectives of his work in 1992 and again in 2004.

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SOMEBODY IS WATCHING ME – DID YOU EVER GET THAT FEELING

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CHAPEL ROYAL DUBLIN CASTLE

These heads are but two of one hundred and three Tullamore limestone heads carved by Edward and John Smyth. They are portraits of Brian Boru (the one with the crown) and Saint Patrick.

There has been a chapel at Dublin Castle since at least 1242.

The present chapel was designed by Francis Johnston and was opened, as the Anglican chapel of the Viceroy, on Christmas Day 1814. Although several times smaller than Johnston’s nearby General Post Office, it was as expensive to build. It became known as the Chapel Royal after King George IV attended service on 2 September 1821.

Following Irish independence in 1922, it lay dormant before becoming a Roman Catholic church in 1943. It is now deconsecrated. The galleries and stained glass windows are ornamented with coats of arms representing many of Ireland’s Viceroys. The arms of the last Viceroy, Lord FitzAlan Howard, filled the very last available space in the last available window when they were installed in 1922.

The decoration of the ceiling of the interior was done by George Stapleton (son of Michael Stapleton), a leading stuccodore of the time, while sculptor Edward Smyth (responsible for the “river heads” on the Custom House) and his son John Smyth (responsible for the statues on the GPO) carved the larger figures.

Over the chancel window are three life-size figures representing Faith, Hope and Charity. Over the galleries are heads representing Piety and Devotion. All the interior vaulting and columns are cast in timber and feature a paint wash (faux pierre) to give the effect of stone. It was described as having “the most flamboyant and luxurious Dublin interior of its era.”

The exterior was clad in a thin layer of “fine limestone from Tullamore quarry”, and famously features over 90 carved heads, including those of Brian Boru, St. Patrick, Archbishop Ussher and Jonathan Swift, done by Edward and John Smyth.

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