How well do you know Dublin?
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K looks very much like Stokes Place, that useful shortcut between St. Stephen’s Green and Harcourt Street.
@Thomond Park wrote:
Is it the cupolla that was taken down from the wool store in part of the Spencer Dock scheme?
Nope, that one was not nearly as nice or well maintained.
I can’t figure out which building it is in the docklands; the only explanation that springs to mind is that the photo has been taken from a tall building closer to the centre
K is Harcourt Square which is given away by the ‘Iveagh Court’ on Harcourt Road it does resemble both the Mater hospital and Stokes place, three horror stories
Coming back to A I am confused by what appears to be an overhanging tree and there are no trees at this location.
@Thomond Park wrote:
Coming back to A I am confused by what appears to be an overhanging tree and there are no trees at this location.
I was wondering about that too, the first time I saw the picture. I originally thought that it might be a building at the back of Kevin Street, Long Lane I think, where there are trees. Obviously it’s not, though looking at the drainpipes it’s hard to reconcile the small picture (A) with the complete one.
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
Got a few of them – f is bothering me, thats a port crane in the background…
Gotta be Pearse Street Garda Station 🙂
It is indeed Andrew 🙂
Though the building itself isn’t too bad – rather bizarre 1940s piece by the looks of it…
Excellent work CTR for getting Pearse Street Garda Station – what a difficult one that was. I woudn’t have got it either admittedly.
And yes Harcourt Square/Garda Station features with the relad Iveagh Court in the background, and the gilded fanlight of the main entrance to the Custom House there too.So J gets carried forward – hmmm…..
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O has been tweaked slightly to alter the background.
Sorry pics thus far are a bit city centre-centred – if anyone else could help redress the balance that would be good.Is Q Tyrone House, the HQ of the Dept. of Education on Marlborough St.
O is Thomas Moore on College Green and Q is Tyrone House on Marlborough St.
Is P an office building on the west side of Earlsfort Terrace, between Upper Hatch Street and Adelaide Road. I think that building is somewhere around there. I have a suspicion that J may be the Law Society in Blackhall Place.
Wrong on both counts – very wrong on the first.:o Well at least this thread is encouraging to put in a bit of cycling at the weekend:)
P is Fitzwilton house, and J is either The National Museum or National Library?
Is P on D’olier Street ?
ah go back to bed.
Well, okay not too bad. Fitzgerald’s D’Olier House is P which is presumably what you meant hutton :), and Peter.
Nice building.
Clare Street is very well spotted as N – a classic Dublin vista as viewed from Nassau Street, given away in the compliation by a certain cupola…
Q is Tyrone House. Surprisingly few nine-over-sixes on major buildings in the city so those tall windows probably stood out.
And of course Moore is O. Still enjoys the odd tipple.
…especially if a nice Australian Cabernet Sauvignon.
Anyone else enjoy reading ‘My trip to Historic Dublin’ sites by silly Americans?
Can across one recently delighting over the ‘Georgian’ chimneys of the Scottish Widows in ‘Georgian Dublin’, and Moore, ‘both at least 200 years old’ 😀So poor J languishes at the bottom of the pile 🙁
Come on, it’s hardly that difficult. At least Foster Place is getting warmer in that with that level of decoration it’s clearly Regency or 20th century classicisim. But which? And where?J
(and shut up Devin – you always have to spoil everything)
😉
It reminds me more of a gate lodge (or similar) that I’ve seen around somewhere, rather than one of the more imposing buildings in the city. The obvious one would be the gate lodge at the Lincoln Place entrance to TCD, but I think that was taken down some years back. Must have a look.
This is a superrb thread. Great idea. The pounds will fall off me this weekend!
That little bit of string around Thomas Moore’s neck. What’s it for? It looks like he’s wearing a hoody.
Quick question, Graham, about the unsolved location. Is that tree still there? I just had a hunch it might be one of the buildings on O’Connell Street.
Any chance of another clue:D
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