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LINDSAY ROAD NATIONAL SCHOOL

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GLASNEVIN JUNE 2023

There is a railway foot bridge that connects the school with Claude Road which I did not explore today.

Lindsay Road National School is a primary school in Glasnevin and it opened in 1910. It is co-educational, and as of 2016 had 6 teachers, including 4 mainstream classes. The Schools Patrons are representatives of the Presbyterian Church. The school has merged with a number of Protestant faith schools over the years, such as the Methodist School on Clonliffe Road.

The school is a feeder school for Mount Temple Comprehensive School. In case you are unaware Mount Temple was the school where the rock band U2 was formed. In September 1976, 14-year-old drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. posted a notice on the school’s noticeboard, looking for fellow musicians. All four members of U2 are former pupils of the school.

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Grangegorman Histories: Public Funding Call

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NOTICE

13 July 2023 

We invite applications for funding to support projects exploring and sharing any element of the history of Grangegorman

Grangegorman Histories invites applications from individuals and organisations for funding to support a project that explores and shares any element of the history of Grangegorman, in keeping with its public history values.

Grangegorman Histories’ mission is to provide opportunities to contribute to the important work of uncovering, cataloguing and commemorating the eventful history of this site and surrounding areas. We welcome projects that support the implementation of the activities detailed in our current Implementation Plan. A list of completed and ongoing activities can be found on our website. We will consider proposals that aim at expanding any of the work already done, and also welcome projects from different disciplines, including but not limited to the creative arts, food history, botany and environmental studies, architecture and design, and employing different formats, like physical or digital trails, culinary experiences, webinars and workshops, audio and video materials, or traditional print literature. Outputs from successful applicants’ projects must be shared in the public domain. Such outputs may be digital in whole or in part. 

Guidelines for applications and a link to apply can be found here and the in the download area.

Grangegorman Histories is a public history project of Dublin City Council, Grangegorman Development Agency, HSE, Local Communities, National Archives, Royal Irish Academy and TU Dublin. Established in 2019, the project provides opportunities to contribute to the important work of uncovering, cataloguing and commemorating the history of the Grangegorman area.

Applications must be received on or before 17.00 on Friday, 29 September 2023. Projects must be delivered by 12 months from date of funding notification.

A Q&A session will be held via Teams at 11.00-12.00 on Friday, 28 July. You can access the session at any point via this link(link is external).

GRANGEGORMAN HISTORIES

I WAS WALKING ALONG BERKELEY STREET AND BERKELEY ROAD

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AND WAS CAUGHT OUT IN AN AMAZINGLY SUDDEN THUNDER STORM

The change in the weather caught me totally by surprise but the rain storm lasted less than five minutes.

I visited Berkeley Road today, Sunday, as I had hoped to photograph the interior of the Carmelite Church but it was closed as was the park beside the church.

St. Joseph’s Carmelite Church on Berkeley Road is the Roman Catholic church of the Berkeley Road Parish. The church is dedicated to Saint Joseph and is in full use today in the care of the Discalced Carmelite. [Note] Discalced is derived from Latin, meaning “without shoes”.

Originally a wooden chapel of ease was built here in 1870 until its replacement with the building of the current granite church.

The granite building was designed by the architects O’Neill and Byrne with construction beginning in 1875 and was completed and consecrated in 1880.

The Berkeley Road Parish was established in 1890 from St. Michan’s. The parish is called Berkeley Road even though the church is located on Berkeley Street.

To celebrate the establishment of the parish, the North-Western bell tower was constructed between 1892–3 to the designs of John L. Robinson.

The church was put into the care of the Discalced Carmelites in July 1983.

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