THE PIPERS CORNER

THE PIPERS CORNER SACKVILLE PLACE - MALBOROUGH STREET

Sackville Place has had a violent history and until recently I had not realised that there had been two car bombs on the street.

December 1st 1972 At 7.58pm a car bomb detonated in Eden Quay close to Liberty Hall, Dublin. At 8.16pm the second car bomb exploded in Sackville Place. Two men, George Bradshaw (30) and Thomas Duff (23) both CIE bus conductors, were killed in the second explosion.

January 20th, 1973, a car bomb exploded on Sackville Place, killing Thomas Douglas (20), a bus conductor from Sterling in Scotland. He had only been living in Dublin for four months.
The Pipers Corner is located on Sackville Place and Malborough Street
COMMENT BY GARRY BOYNE

Hi William, that pub was called the Sean O'Casey Inn until about 2004-ish. I don't think the name himself would have approved; like Larkin and many in that cadre O'Casey had nothing but contempt for publicans and the alcohol industry in its entirety. He always referred to the state formed in 1922 as the Grocers' Republic.

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