Leinster Market, off Hawkins Street D@
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November 2, 2008 at 7:16 pm #710233lauderParticipant
Anyone know the background to this street? Stumbled upon it on Friday, one of the most beautiful and unusual lanes in Dublin, would make a fabulous tourist spot if it was cleaned up and used.
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November 2, 2008 at 9:22 pm #804618AnonymousInactive
If you needed an illustration of how DCC doesn’t care, of how traders don’t care, of how the public doesn’t care… Townscape? Just use it as a tip.
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November 2, 2008 at 9:24 pm #804619AnonymousInactive
I wouldn’t like to speculate as to whose fault this is; knowing as I do who owns that building and having dreaded from the start the aggravation its inevitable poor treatment would cause me.
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November 3, 2008 at 8:45 am #804620AnonymousInactive
Its not a public street/lane so its not really DCCs fault. The lane was built as part of the Gas Building complex and refurbished in early 1990s (i think) by the Gas Company. The lane now belongs to Trinity I imagine.
Big problem here…. where does it go to. A lack of usage and destination mean that its can quickly become a spot for anti-social behaviour. Hence the gates.
I agree its a shame though.
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November 3, 2008 at 12:17 pm #804621AnonymousInactive
StephenC: because it’s private (ownership) doesn’t mean it’s not public (concern). So, it is DCC’s fault. We are entering a ‘new world order’ (I think).
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November 5, 2008 at 7:24 pm #804622AnonymousInactive
It’d make a nice location for a Christmas Market… At night, with some of those tasteful white lights overhead like the lanes off Grafton St had last year, it’d look like something from Harry Potter.
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November 5, 2008 at 7:32 pm #804623Paul ClerkinKeymaster
It’s actually quite a narrow passageway and not much use as anything other than a shortcut. Quite picturesque though.
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November 5, 2008 at 8:01 pm #804624AnonymousInactive
Dublin’s Bridge of Sighs as in “sigh” oh well, it’s not sooo bad looking at all these bins I suppose.
I doubt you’d find eternal love by kissing under it though. A knee trembler maybe…..
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November 5, 2008 at 9:08 pm #804625AnonymousInactive
Although architecturally very different, it reminds me a bit of Little Turnstile in London in terms of the narrowness of the laneway
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November 11, 2008 at 5:57 pm #804626AnonymousInactive
A lot of similarities with Bottcherstrasse in Bremen built in the 1920s and now a tourist trap.
There’s a good b+w Father Brown photograph of Leinster Market, with shops, in a new book called the ‘Annals of Dublin’.
Unfortunately it’s thirty quid, so we may have to wait until they’re giving it away for five after Christmas.
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November 11, 2008 at 10:38 pm #804627AnonymousInactive
If the hideous heap that is O’Connell Bridge House (which blocks the alley off from dolier street) was knocked, it would make a great passage way linking the two streets, and rid the city of one of its most grotesque and contextually misplaced building’s.
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November 12, 2008 at 11:43 am #804628AnonymousInactive
Is there not an access through to D’Olier St that just isn’t open?
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November 12, 2008 at 12:00 pm #804629AnonymousInactive
Yes- it’s a through route. Sometimes not open, but not blocked (to the best of my knowledge).
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August 8, 2009 at 4:34 pm #804630AnonymousInactive
@donalbarry7 wrote:
If the hideous heap that is O’Connell Bridge House (which blocks the alley off from dolier street) was knocked, it would make a great passage way linking the two streets, and rid the city of one of its most grotesque and contextually misplaced building’s.
Someone please tell me that there is at least a remote chance someone will do away with O’Connell Bridge House within the next decade. Not even Loopline bridge is as big a stain on the entire impression the city of Dublin gives off as that dreary looking monstrosity.
It might just be me but I feel the spot is craving a high rise. Something sleek and streamline, but damn tall, like a compact London Bridge Tower:
In the end almost anything else will do, even nothing. If I could change one structure in Dublin, it would be that.
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