custom house / hawkins house masterplan concept

Ok, but the chances of there being a park at Tara Street Station are zero. This is one of the prime locations for a fairly substantial high rise cluster which would block your view, plus the loop line seems to have been conveniently ommitted from the above.I like the concept of new streets, and dividing the old block structure. Perhaps the DART cluster could close your view as effectively as Custom House would in any case

Two words…

“Loop” and “Line” 🙁

@missarchi wrote:

I wonder where the diagonal street will be?

https://archiseek.com/content/showthread.php?t=6590

@fergalr wrote:

Two words…

“Loop” and “Line” 🙁

emm…I also would like to know where the loop line is going to go?

Plus I don’t think Irish Life would be too happy about having a street put through em

I enjoyed looking at this Missarchi. Where is the Kennedy pub gone though? It always reminds me of that building in the 1980s film Batteries Not Included… I am sure if anyone tried to knock it some little robots might just rebuild it again!

@phil wrote:

I enjoyed looking at this Missarchi. Where is the Kennedy pub gone though? It always reminds me of that building in the 1980s film Short Circuit… I am sure if anyone tried to knock it some little robots might just rebuild it again!:)

which watering hole:p did your d fall off? j/k

Many of the more mature regulars in Kennedy’s argue that the pub used to be called Kenney’s, an argument that was silenced one summers evening recently by an animated professor of English who claimed that this misguided perception existed simply because the D fell off the name hanging outside and the then proprietor was tardy in replacing it. Case closed.

http://www.kennedys.ie/5_contact/index.html

here are the 5 minute crayons again… i have tried to keep the sight lines from the irishtimes;)

tara could become a metro station with connection to metro north and or go to broom bridge or move to…
north south liffey benefits? tara and pearse are so close its kinda strange… but this raises issues are to weather CIE will move there main train hub north…

Sorry, Missarchi, I had edited because I managed to get the name of the film wrong in my first submission. I am not sure how I managed to get rid of the little smiley face in the meantime!

Good to hear that story about the missing ‘d’ though

As one of the more elderly visitors to Kennedy’s, my recollection is that some time in the early eighties, when the corporation gave up their dreams of widening Westland Row, TCD acquired the property. The name was certainly changed around that time through the simple expedient of removing the “d” in Kennedy’s, resulting in an unusual spelling of the name Kenney. The letters were big blocks, each separately fixed. As far as I recall this was on both facades, and the “S” was definitely moved to fill the gap. I don’t recall when the name reverted to Kennedy’s but the story on their website is fantasy. Earlier it had been called Kennedy and Son, and when the signwriter finished his work, Mr Kennedy complained that there was too much space between Kennedy and and and and and and Son, which apparently is one of the few instances in which the word and can correclty appear five times in a row without punctuation. Though perhaps some inverted commas would be in order.

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo

I’m not mad.

Goneill, I think it is a different bar I am referring to. It is the one on the corner of Tara Street and the Quays.

@phil wrote:

Goneill, I think it is a different bar I am referring to. It is the one on the corner of Tara Street and the Quays.

You’re quite right. But the story about the missing “d” (as introduced by Missarchi) relates to the Westland Row one.

@goneill wrote:

You’re quite right. But the story about the missing “d” (as introduced by Missarchi) relates to the Westland Row one.

aha, I didn’t look at the link provided, so assumed we were talking about the one on the quays, given the location of the map etc. Funny story none-the-less.