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    • September 16, 2003 at 2:44 pm #706463
      urbanisto
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      Meanwhile work commences on the Dunnes Stores site on South George St with demoltion of most of the old building. The poor auld Long Hall looks a bit forlorn. Does anyone know what the new development looks like.

      And work also starts on the Mary Street entrance to the Ilac…thank God for that.

    • September 16, 2003 at 3:11 pm #735978
      GregF
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      Have’nt been up this way in a while ….Has Dunne Stores then demolished that fine red brick Victorian building here

    • September 16, 2003 at 3:22 pm #735979
      bluefoam
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      I heard they found some stuff in Dunnes when they started to take it down and the demolishing/building work has been delayed for the archeologists to move in.

      It was a Viking burial, which they believe to predate the time they thought the Vikings had originally arrived.

      Can anyone back this up?

    • September 16, 2003 at 3:46 pm #735980
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      yes it was in the papers… they found the bodies of seven viking raiders… they predate the viking city….

    • September 16, 2003 at 4:08 pm #735981
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      …………….early norse stag night party?

      Glasgow had very strict anti drink and pillage laws in the sixth century, Dublin was maybe more relaxed

    • September 16, 2003 at 5:16 pm #735982
      Paul Clerkin
      Keymaster

      …. nahhh none of them had “witty” t-shirts or pink fright wigs 😉

    • September 17, 2003 at 9:25 am #735983
      Andrew Duffy
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      Has Dunne Stores then demolished that fine red brick Victorian building here

      It’s not the Dunnes supermarket that’s been demolished but a whole row of derlict buildings the other side of the road, to make way for a new headquarters. They decided not to use the tallish building in Blanchardstown for some reason.

      The supermarket is a protected structure. It’s part of the South City Markets, isn’t it?

    • September 17, 2003 at 2:33 pm #735984
      urbanisto
      Participant

      Yes, the supermarket forms part of the Markets. The demolition is on the other side of the road. You might recall the corner buildings at Little Ship St had gone. There are two retains facades then the Long Hall and then a gap. It funny, I can’t recall the buildings there (already) but I think they were redbrick and granite 1930s stock.

    • September 17, 2003 at 3:10 pm #735985
      Rory W
      Participant

      they were photos of them on fjp’s site

      http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/photos/index.html

      though quite why fjp is dead I don’t know!!!

      It was the old Cassidy’s store that has been knocked not Dunnes supermarket. Nobody could even try to get away with knocking part of the South City Markets

    • September 17, 2003 at 9:56 pm #735986
      GrahamH
      Participant

      There’s been a fine view of Dublin Castle through this hole for many a month – shame to see it go now!

    • September 22, 2003 at 2:10 am #735987
      James
      Participant

      One of the buildings knocked had an original 18th century pressed tin set of ceilings to the first floor I’m informed, very unusual and the earliest and just about ony one recorded in Ireland.

      They were far earlier than 1930’s.

      Does anybody actually like the new scheme – can’t say I’m very impressed – derivative, jejeune declasse and all that!!

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