NORTH FREDERICK STREET

NORTH FREDERICK STREET 22 MAY 2020

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NORTH FREDERICK STREET [MAY 2020]

I had hoped to photograph No. 30, a building with history, which is currently derelict but there were a number of people sitting on the doorstep and access was also limited due to roadworks. I will try again at a later date.

You may have noticed from my recent photographs that there is a lot of street maintenance in progress and much of this is connected with the reconfiguration of city centre streets in advance of the post Covid-19 new normal. Some measures already undertaken by the council to increase space and social distancing for pedestrians, including priority setting on traffic lights to guard against footpath queueing. According to statements by Dublin City Council the same level of vehicular traffic cannot be accommodated in the city as before, and in a number of locations motorised vehicles would have to banned after 11am each day.

An Stad was a guest house at 30 North Frederick Street, Dublin frequented by notable historical figures, including Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland, Arthur Griffith, founder of Sinn Féin, author James Joyce, Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) founder Michael Cusack and poet William Butler Yeats. It was a tobacco shop, guesthouse, restaurant and meeting place and its guests had wide ranging influence over the Irish Nationalist movement, well-known works of literature and the development of Irish sport in the early 20th century.

Besides the many nationalist and Irish language enthusiasts that lauded the An Stad movement, many were also opposed. The most noted of these was Padraig Pearse. He felt that the tobacco and alcohol stained atmosphere tainted the purity of his republican ideal.[29] According to Pearse's biographer, Brian P Murphy, many of the leaders of the 1916 rising, looking to create a puritanical state, felt it necessary to marginalize both the revelers at An Stad and the Gaelic Football players of the Phoenix Park, from their movement.et and Capel Street.

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