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GREAT STRAND STREET

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CONNECTING LOWER LIFFEY STREET TO CAPEL STREET VIA JERVIS STREET

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.

THE CLONTARF TO CITY CENTRE CYCLE AND BUS PRIORITY PROJECT

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AMIENS STREET SECTION STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS

While many sections of the route look finished, it is mostly still under construction and not suitable for cyclists or pedestrians.

The Clontarf to City Centre Project (C2CC Project) is a transportation project being delivered by Dublin City Council. It is funded by the National Transport Authority.
It will provide 8km of walking, 6km of cycling facilities, and 5.4km [both directions combined] bus priority infrastructure. This scheme extends from Clontarf Road at the junction with Alfie Byrne Road, to Amiens Street at the junction with Talbot Street.

The Clontarf to City Centre Cycle & Bus Priority Project (C2CC Project) will provide segregated cycling facilities and bus priority infrastructure along a 2.7km route that extends from Clontarf Road at the junction with Alfie Byrne Road, to Amiens Street at the junction with Talbot Street. The route is identified as a primary route in the Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network Plan, published by the National Transport Authority in 2013.

The project will deliver the following:

  • Provide high quality, continuous and consistent cycling facilities to cater for existing and future demand;
  • Improve the urban realm, landscape and built environment along the route;
    Protect vulnerable road users through the delivery of a safe and attractive route for commuter and recreational cycling, and the upgrade and provision of additional pedestrian crossings;
  • Improve bus journey times and reliability;
  • Simplify the interchange between bus services and other transport modes;
  • Reduce reliance on private car transport;
  • Provide for a reduction in transport emissions through encouraging a modal shift to active travel and public transport use;

The following stages have been completed on the C2CC Project:

  • Approval of a Sustainable Transport Measures Grant from the National Transport Authority in 2012.
  • Completion of Option Selection in 2012.
  • Preliminary Design – prepared by RPS Consulting Engineers between 2014 and 2016.
  • Part 8 Planning Application Submitted in early 2017.
  • Design Amendments made in relation to trees and junctions.
  • A revised Part 8 planning application was submitted in 2017.
    Between 2017 and 2020, a detailed design was developed, in conjunction with all stakeholders and led by ROD Consulting Engineers.
  • In 2021 Dublin City Council ran a tender process to select a preferred construction contractor for the C2CC Project.
  • In December 2021, the National Transport Authority granted approval for the project to proceed to construction.
  • In January 2022, Clonmel Enterprises were awarded the contract to construct the Clontarf to City Centre Project.


Construction works commenced on March 28th 2022

Works will be completed in seven sections. These are:
Section 1 – Talbot Street to Buckingham Street
Section 2 – Buckingham Street to the Five Lamps Junction at Portland Row
Section 3 – Five Lamps Junction to Annesley Place n Section 4 – Annesley Place to Poplar Row
Section 5 – Poplar Row to Fairview Strand
Section 6 – Fairview Strand to Malahide Road
Section 7 – Malahide Road to Alfie Byrne Road

To the best of my knowledge sections 2, 6 and 7 were to be completed by the end of 2022 but I will need to confirm that they have been completed.
The remaining sections are due to be completed by the end of 2023 but it is possible that there will be delays.

DUBLIN STREET IN BALDOYLE

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HOME TO ST MARY’S SCHOOL AND ST PATRICK’S CARE CENTRE

Baldoyle village today has a coastal main street, with a Roman Catholic church, a community hall, a modern county library branch with sea views, and some shops and pubs. Slightly inland, among the older suburban houses, is a small shopping precinct containing a Lidl supermarket, a football club, another Roman Catholic church, and other amenities.

St Mary’s School is bounded by Dublin Street, Main Street, College Street and Back Lane. The Sisters of Charity arrived in Baldoyle in July 1869, to begin their dedicated and caring work in the community. In 1872 they established their Primary School and St. Mary’s Secondary School opened its doors in September 1967 with an enrollment of 50 girls, mainly drawn from the Baldoyle area itself. In 1972 the secondary school moved to its present premises – the former home of the Christian Brothers’ novitiate, and began to enroll students from all over North Dublin.

St. Patrick’s Care Centre was built by the Congregation of Christian Brothers for ageing and infirm members of their own order. It was opened in 1970 with 40 bedrooms. The Congregation transferred the nursing home in 2008. Since then management have have added a 24 bed wing, a 10 bed extension and totally refurbished and renewed the original building to facilitate the needs of older people in Dublin’s north side communities in addition to the Christian Brothers. It is registered to provide care for 78 residents of whom 15 have dementia specific needs. They also provide 13 two bedroom houses (Alexandra Crescent) providing a continuum of care on the site.

HICKS TOWER ON THE COAST ROAD SEE IF YOU CAN SPOT THE HEAD

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ROBSWALL MALAHIDE

I was unaware that this was originally unaware that this was originally a Martello Tower,

Former Martello tower, built c. 1805, remodelled c.1911 as Arts and Crafts style detached house. Designed by architect Frederick Hicks. Two storeys to main tower block with two storeys to attic accommodation. Return and stair block attached to rear.

POEM BY JO SLADE AND SCULPTURE BY SIMON DONNELLY

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MALAHIDE AUGUST 2023

Today when I visited Malahide I came across an number of wood sculptures and I assumed that they were by the well known Richie Clarke but when I checked on Google Maps they are shown as being by Simon Donnelly. Unfortunately I cannot locate any information relation to Simon Donnelly. There is a Simon Donnelly who is a static and kinetic sculptor based in Dublin and he may be a member of Visual Artists Ireland.

Painter-poet Jo Slade is a Limerick-based writer who studied at the Limerick National College of Art and Design. Her painting informs and colours her poetry and her work has been exhibited in both France and Ireland. Jo Slade’s collections of poetry include In Fields I Hear Them Sing (1989), The Vigilant One (1994) and Certain Octobers (1997), which featured English and French poetry. Her work has been translated in French, Spanish, Romanian, Russian and Slovenian. Her most recent work features a sequence of poems about the Welsh artist Gwen John.

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