O’ Connell Street, Dublin
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It is rather strange that there isn’t a statue of St Patrick, considering Dublin isn’t exactly short on statuary.
I’m sure there must be one somewhere.@manifesta wrote:
. . . and there’s no telling where it will end once you start giving in to the catholic hardcore.
Catholic hardcore? I see…
…but I don’t see any hardcore.
Perhaps…
…will be more fruitful territory, but I have my doubts, especially as even the Catholics themselves don’t seem to know of any: http://www.phatmass.com/phorum/lofiversion/index.php/t20436.html
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There’s a statue in the Millennium Park in Lismore that might be St. Patrick, but I can’t be sure, and the photos I have are inconclusive. Any west Waterford readers care to comment?
what with the box, its terrible, the previous display case was built for the shape of the statue, this one obviously hasn’t been, its too narrow and too short and heavy on his head. I presume the box above his head has some massive light in it or something,
yes and where the flowers and sign they, it looks like a fish tank for a 2 star hotel…how could they it get so wrong??? they should just cleaned the old case
re millennium sculpture I think the religious had a point, it was the 200 anniversary of chirst supposed birth, that what we base our calender or, it could have some subtle christian influence rather then the meaning something and nothing to everyone blandness that is the spire.
Look, it doesn’t matter. The whole median is going to be dug up anyway in a few years for the Metro Tram and the Luas Tram. :rolleyes:
@weehamster wrote:
Look, it doesn’t matter. The whole median is going to be dug up anyway in a few years for the Metro Tram and the Luas Tram. :rolleyes:
That’s true, but it also means that College Green, Dame St. and Westmorland St. will be dug up too. The IAP for these areas will kick in then 🙂
@ake wrote:
please god let them cut down those planes in college green while they’re at it.
They might just have to to make way for the overhead cables down Dame Street.
Lets be clear on this….the Luas link is dead in the water.
By 2009 or whenever,the money will be gone,the various worthies are already muddying the waters in preparation.The Luas link will be quietly shelved as being non cost effective in the “New” fiscal situation as,of course,MetroDub will cover the same ground…ergo many asses will be saved an ignomonous dragging through the mud.
The REAL reason is the lack of any concept of how we were ever going to be able to plan,design and regulate for major overground civil engineering works in the City Centre between St Stephens Green and O Connell St……It`s not how we do things in this Republic i`m afraid….NEXT PLEASE !!!!!!! 😮
I disagree Alek, this and the airport metro projects will go ahead no matter how bad the fiscal situation becomes. An FF-led government will not continue to accept two unlinked Luas lines because in their minds, they actually believe it’s going to help ease congestion in the city centre. They’ve set their stall on it and won’t be for turning.
The Airport Metro again has also become a cause celebre and these two projects won’t be dropped. Think you’re right that some projects, Metro West etc could very much slip off the radar in the coming years.Its not dead its just ….delayed….:rolleyes:
Anyway where’s the line to Liffey Jtn going to go, Also there is going to be a fesability study to extending the line to Finglas. 😉
DB have installed one of their new bus stops on the street, similar to the ones in London. They plan to roll them out around the city centre over the next few months.
Thoughts on design?
Each stop will have a designation for identification on maps, as per London.
Therefore if you looked at a city centre bus stop map, and wanted a 4 northbound is would be listed as stopping at ‘OF’.@StephenC wrote:
Aaaah OF course!
stands for Oh Fuck which is what you hear most when someone who’s just missed one sees the timetable
Although pretty much to the TfL London standard design,and quite possibly used under licence,this to my jaded eye is probably the most complimantary piece of infrastructure to appear on the “New” O Connell St.
Perhaps now those foul looking Payphone Cubicles will be removed along with some of the central median lamp standards which have not aged well at all.
However,at this stage it`s unlikely that there is ANYBODY in DCC`s employ with responsibility or interest in the ethos of the O Connell St IAP as it once was….Ivor Callelly`s Taxi Rank saw to that…. 😡
There’s another insidious development happening on O’Connell Street, something that the public domain improvement works was supposed to stamp out: on-street traffic signal and electrical boxes.
Initially they were neatly sunk underground when the street was first repaved, as suggested by the IAP, but as changes and new additions have come about, they’ve simply been put back at street level in exactly the ugly boxes the upgrading works set out to remove. Nearly all are clustered about the Lower street, which when coupled with the new ranks of ugly incongruous bins makes for a thoroughly cluttered streetscape.
The purpose-designed uniform furnishing scheme is again being eroded away.Lower street east.
Lower street west, and the principal entrance to the street at that.
Lower street west further up outside Clarks. A particularly ancient box dumped right in the middle of the double-width pavement, adding to the growing collection at this crossing. Ironically the recycled box, while demonstrating the completely incoherent approach taken with the street’s furnishings, is actually the only half-decent one here.
Across the road we have this newly installed outside the Sony Centre.
These two delightful sentries stand guard opposite the Spire on the Upper street. At least they give something to lean against, given there isn’t a public seat on all 1900 feet of the thoroughfare.
And facing it outside the Happy Ring House.
Whilst not a major blemish, these boxes are just yet another example of how the street is already losing the cohesiveness of design as set out in the IAP. A rigourous, bull-by-the-horns approach needs to be taken regarding all aspects of public domain developments on this street. The fact that much of it is being conducted by DCC’s own departments makes it all the more important that this be controlled.
There have been some positive developments recently though. Some might have read about the recent installation on the street of a memorial plaque to Augustus Saint-Gaudens, designer and sculptor of Parnell Monument. It’s positioned just in front of the monument on the median of O’Connell Street, in the midst our cast iron friends up there 🙂
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October 25th 2007The Lord Mayor of Dublin Councillor Paddy Bourke will unveil a commemorative plaque to Augustus Saint-Gaudens on Thursday 25th October 2007 at 11.00 a.m. in the presence of His Excellency Thomas C. Foley, United States Ambassador to Ireland. The plaque, by renowned US sculptor Lawrence Nowlan, is placed on the footpath on the central median of O’Connell Street opposite the Parnell Monument. Saint-Gaudens was a master sculptor who created some of America’s most famous monuments. He was the sculptor for the Parnell Monument in Dublin.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin on the 1st March 1848 to Bernard Saint-Gaudens, a French shoemaker and Mary McGuinness, his Irish wife. Six months later, the family immigrated to New York City where Augustus grew up. In 1876 he received his first major commission; a monument to Civil War Admiral David Glasgow Farragut. Unveiled in New York’s Madison Square in 1881, the monument was a tremendous success and was seen as a departure from previous American sculpture. Saint-Gaudens’ fame grew and the popularity of his work established him as the leading American sculptor of the latter half of the nineteenth century.
He produced enduring and distinctive public sculpture such as the Adams Memorial, the Peter Cooper Monument, and the John A. Logan Monument. Perhaps his greatest achievement was the Shaw Memorial unveiled on Boston Common in 1897. Described as Saint-Gaudens’ ‘symphony in bronze’ this masterpiece took fourteen years to complete.
Saint-Gaudens died in Cornish, New Hampshire on August 3, 1907. His wife survived him for nineteen years, and with their son, Homer, established the Saint-Gaudens Memorial, an organization dedicated to preserve the his former residence as an historic site.
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And although waaaay too early to even mention the word, the City Christmas tree arrived in the early hours yesterday morning 🙂
Beautifully shaped specimen this year – great choice.
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