How well do you know Dublin?
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@GrahamH wrote:
Got it in one, gunter. It terminates the vista from the ILAC looking south. Would have thought that to be one of the easier ones!
Can’t place the outstanding case though…
Thats the lot – and yes the firefighting one is on the side of a trinity building along pearse street.
Wow; that was fast, it is a small Jewish graveyard on the north side of Fairview Strand, the date is 1858 in the Gregorian calendar. There is a Mary in the window above the door, so I guess it is no longer owned by Jews, I have for years wanted to ask to see the graveyard, but have never quite gotten around to it.
I came across this thread last week and spent all week catching up with it. As a non architect can I say thanks for the education and the entertainment. It drove me back out at the weekend to walk 6 km through the city with new eyes (and a camera).
I take it Hutton’s heads didn’t get their own thread. Surely this beauty deserves inclusion:
Of course she may be considered too young to be in the company of so many old men, so we’ll provide her with a couple of older godparents as chaperones:
Defo. The latter two famously are a century older than the warehouse that hosts them, having been salvaged from James Gandon’s Carlisle – now O’Connell – Bridge upon reconstruction in 1880. They’re also much more accomplished than their replacements, being vigorously carved by Edward Smyth.
They look magnificent in their new setting nonetheless.
Yes, here’s the warehouse in question, just down from the British and Irish Steam Packet Company featured earlier.
I had reckoned these had to be salvage and was going to ask if anyone knew anything about them, so thanks for the info GH.
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
I heard a rumour that the building is under threat – structurally not sound.
Are Principle Management still in there? I presume they will go to the U2 tower if it ever happens-was a very nice renovation on the inside (better than the Not-Us office ran out of a
garden shed on the Merrion Road before they decamped offshore with Bono and the boys’ billions;)The rear part of the building was also occupied by several music biz offices – that did seem in bad nick the last time I was there 4/5 years ago…
@notjim wrote:
And where is this crime being committed?
The old Waxie Dargle on Granby Row. The new muriel is hilarious. The guy on the fiddle is missing his strings and bow, and looks very upset indeed.
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