O’ Connell Street, Dublin
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when is o connell street due to be fully completed? i don’t have the time to look through the whole thread for this info as it is huge. sorry if the info i’m looking for was mentioned before. 🙂
April is the date I have heard. At least for all the paving works. As mentioned earlier the Spire will be cleaned in summer. I think by June next year the street should be completed…if you can wait that long.
As for GPO… it is a bit grimy, especially around the portico. Maybe your right about the cost though…they could probably spend the money on all there post boxes crying out for a lick of paint.
thanks for the info. april isn’t too bad. i can’t wait to see the end result. as for the spire, it does need a good clean. it seems like the work on that street is taking forever but it is for the greater good though. 🙂
The post boxs could do a couple of coats every 50 years or so it is something you notice in england the boxs are always clean
@JPD wrote:
The post boxs could do a couple of coats every 50 years or so it is something you notice in england the boxs are always clean
that’s very true. they need to be freshened up. some of the post boxes here look so old and dirty. i don’t trust them. i always post my letters in the post office branch box anyway. lol. 🙂
There’s a great old early 20th century pillar box on Lower O’Connell Street East that I hope goes back down again; suffice to say it too was in bits and in need of some attention.
Not only do An Post have to paint all their boxes, they also need to adopt a standard green too, instead of the ridiculous variation one always sees – including on their own signage.
Why the heck they adopted that horribly mediocre British building society corporate bluey green with the ‘racing’ red arrow on it goodness only knows, and especially in the face of the traditional yellowy green still in use almost universally, as should be the case.
What a mess.Is the GPO definitely being cleaned though, as all the windows in the building were repainted only a few weeks ago – sure they’ll be destroyed with dust and dirt won’t they?!
Yes we all know An Post is skint but they have completely neglected to paint their post boxes in Dublin, with many of the cast iron ones showing serious rusting.
Graffiti is not removed either.
Perhaps the irony is lost on them that changing the colours of the post boxes was one of the objectives of the 1916 visitors to their GPO.
Roadsigns, street furniture, postboxes, rail stations – all going downhill.
Very true about the post boxes they never clear the old paint off before repainting and when the painters don’t bother to clean them down years of grit accumulates into the paint looking manky
This is a photo of a photo of O’Connel bridge from 1928 from “civil week” or something the barman was telling me – I took it the other night in a pub I was in. I haven’t seen this photo before on the thread. . .. the big construction on the median of the bridge looks bizarre. . . anybody got a better version?
Yes it’s an extraordinary scene – it wasn’t in a pub on Talbot St Con by any chance?
Mad stuff altogether – those poor median lamp standards have been uprooted so many times over the years I’ve lost count at this stage!Its the pavillion for the Eucharistic Congress held in 1932 isnt it? I think you might even find a pic somewhere on this site, its been posted before
Stupid question, I know but do you think it is actually made of stone … or is it just wooden, the way we would do it these days.
Also on a completely different subject, the next time somebody tells you the €5 million Millennium Spire was a waste of money. Tell them that the Millennium Bridge in London cost £5 million and that was just to stop it wobbling. It will certainly call a halt to their gallop.
Just wait till the Spire starts wobbling too though….:)
Good question about the material used for the building, I was wondering too but assumed it was made of timber.
Likewise with that spectacular altar that was erected in the Phoenix Park that seems to have been forgotton about – wood there too?Always wondered where that ended up: a vast vast pile made up of curving steps and collonade etc – surely one of the largest temporary structures ever erected in Ireland.
It wasn’t something that would fit into someone’s back garden either as is usually the case with these things…
@kefu wrote:
Also on a completely different subject, the next time somebody tells you the €5 million Millennium Spire was a waste of money. Tell them that the Millennium Bridge in London cost £5 million and that was just to stop it wobbling. It will certainly call a halt to their gallop.
I wonder how much it would cost to straighten out the bend at the top :rolleyes:
I didn’t know that there was a bend 😎
The images of the temporary structures are very interesting; all that work for such a short building life; 😉 when one considers much of the poor design on the quays that will unfortunately have such a long building life. 😮
The enforcement of the no motorbike parking will be interesting to observe but fair play to the CC they have done all they can on this and its now over to the police and possibly a new division of clampers to remove any obstructive guests
I got the picture of the o’connel bridge (1928) in Closkys on Dominick Street. A really nice pub up at the Kings Inn end. Also the barman was adament that it was not the eucharist event in 1932 – which seems to have generated a different structure.
I think it would be good if all the old Dublin Pictures from this thread were complied somewhere on the site.
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