O’ Connell Street, Dublin
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Who would have thought a bin could be sexy?
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I love these. I would like to see them on O’Connell street and everywhere in the city, not just the docklands.Good pic ake.
Eiri amach na casca 1916?
A Chairde,
look, I am adding two pics…Anyone know where they were taken? The first pic, you can see the word “SOCIETY” accross the street. Could it be the “Block” 1922/3?
The second pic is supposed to to be the rebels in Dublin 1916. I think not. This pic is obviously posed, but where? Desmond Fitzgerald and Erskine Childers were masters of propaganda, both men were from opposites sides of the civil war. I believe this is a civil war pic (could be wrong)
Desmond Fitzgeralds son became leader of Fine Gael, yep… that LULA Garret.
The latter picture is looking up College Street towards the House of Lords portico, with the Trinity wall on the left. Rather ridiculously posed indeed, with people strolling leisurely about in the background 🙂
The former is from a Free State perspective on the street’s western side, roughly where Dublin Bus is today, looking over at the Hibernian Bible Society located in the former Drogheda House. You can even just about make out T.N. Deane’s office building to the right of the window.
Stunning photograph ake! Looks oddly like a rendering such is the beautiful soft light.
This is just a trivia. Where is this building? Come on! It’s part of our hereitage. Hint, O’Brien on O Connell St? Clue 1848
Slan Colm:)
Come on lad’s’
Don’t let the Dub’s tell you what house that is! I am from Dublin……Come on! It’s in Tipp!!!@colm07 wrote:
Desmond Fitzgeralds son became leader of Fine Gael, yep… that LULA Garret.
You mean the only Taosieach in the 1980’s who kept his fingers out of the till. As we all know Yeats in his September 1913 masterpiece bemoaned the way that Ireland had become a grasping materialistic society with the very powerful image of the shop keeper with their greasy palm in the till.
Roll on 94 years and the convenience stores of O’Connell Street more than anything epitomise where the last decade has brought us.
I believe you have sidetracked the thread as a cabbage patch in Ballinagarry gave us a flag but little else.
I apologise to you PVC and the rest of you. I really am sorry, I’m the lula. Posted that when i came in from the bar. I promise I will not do that again. You got the answer right all the same.
Well Lula seems to have worked for Brazil 😉
Welcome to the site
Yeah, here is Lula from Brazil again. I am 18 female and petite LOL, good one there PVC King:D
Thanks Graham for identifying the location of those two pics:) 🙂
@PVC King wrote:
You mean the only Taosieach in the 1980’s who kept his fingers out of the till.
Sorry to disappoint you, PVC K, but Sir Garret had a rather large favour done by AIB who wrote off a large debt when he got on the wrong side of the GPA privatisation. Also, what he did on the eve of the property tax (dividing his house in two to avoid tax) was disgraceful.
It makes no difference who gets in, they are all equally bad, some are just more smug than others. Let it be over soon.
KB2Garrett sadly is seeing out his golden years in the basement of his house.
His son Mark paid for the upper floors releasing the equity that was required to fund his settlement with AIB; as Garrett was only one of a number of people burnt badly on GPA shares when global markets collapsed in 1992.
He was well out of power when the funds were received. Not in any way an effort to avoid property tax; it was either that or An Gardai Siochana might have been moving their hut from the back of one Gardiner St guest house to another.
He might even have ended up in one of Grant’s places
I’m sure he wished in hindsight that he had avoided directorship or taken one with few share options or a less cyclically exposed stock
FF favours GPO museum – Ahern
From ireland.com12:19Wednesday, 9th May, 2007
Fianna Fáil is committed to developing a museum in the GPO on Dublin’s O’Connell Street, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said today.In April 2006, following the first military parade since 1972 to mark the 90th anniversary of 1916, Mr Ahern told the Dáil that no decision had been made on whether the GPO should be closed as a post office and transformed into some type of museum.
But proposals subsequently emerged to glaze over the hidden courtyards of the GPO and open them to the public as part of a plan to create a museum for the centenary of the Rising.
However, it is understood that the principal function of the building as a post office would be retained under the plan. It had previously been suggested that the GPO, which dates from 1814, might be converted into a museum to commemorate the Rising.
Mr Ahern also said today his party favoured the establishment of the Museum of Irish Literature in Parnell Square and establishing a National Sports Museum.
Mr Ahern made the annoucements during a visit to the National Museum in Collins Barracks where he viewed the recently letter by Pádraig Pearse. The letter is one of Pearse’s final writings and was composed by him in his condemned cell in Kilmainham Jail hours before his execution.
“Ireland’s history belongs to every Irish person and I am delighted that this letter of major historical significance is now in the possession of the State,” Mr Ahern said.
“This State has its roots in 1916. It is a pivotal turning point in our history.”
The President, Taoiseach, opposition leaders were among dignitaries who attended the State’s annual commemoration of the Rising in Arbour Hill, Dublin this morning.
Just what the street needs
A huge amount of dead frontage in the centre.
The Carlton and the Arnott’s mini-city are the two things that will save the west side of the street. If the GPO remains as a post office then the entrance will remain busy. I’d imagine the entrance to any museum would be on the Arnotts side, possibly on one of their planned fancy internal squares.
I think I heard something about that. Some sort of murmuring between govt and Arnotts.so what’s happening to the doors of clery’s – replaced with your bog standard plain glass doors.
were the old ones past their sell by date and irreperable?They were reproductions. I reluctantly agree – on initial impressions, things aren’t looking great. We’ll see how they finish off.
Here’s some info about what’s happening from the Clerys thread.https://archiseek.com/content/showpost.php?p=64064&postcount=24
I see buried away in the election coverage of the Indo an “annnouncement” by the Deputy Mayor that the City council are to redevelop the Ambassador as the new Central Library for the city replacing the Ilac. Its not clear whether its a proposal or a solid plan. Sounds quite interesting though.
Wonder why the Parnell Square plans have disappeared into the ether……..
@PVC King wrote:
“Ireland’s history belongs to every Irish person and I am delighted that this letter of major historical significance is now in the possession of the State,” Mr Ahern said.
What bullshit. Carton, the most historic and magnificent house in Ireland is now a private luxury hotel and golf course, an outrage fully facilitated by the State.
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