Old pictures of Dublin
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@alonso wrote:
site of the lockout? the original Liberty Hall? so it’s Eden Quay/Butt Bridge junction? Wow how peaceful it once was….
Didn’t recongnise it. Thanks.Not always so peaceful:
This one from Earlsfort Terrace.. From the pillars on the front of that house (site now occupied by the Conrad etc) it looks like that entire street was once lined with a terrace of grand houses similar to the few remianing ones at the Adelaide Rd end…
Alexr college was there before moving out to the burbs in the 60s AFAIK. The dereliction of Earlsfort Terrace takes up a good section of ‘The Destruction of Dublin’- apparently it was held speculatively for 20 years as a cleared site apart from the then derelict terrace on lwr Leeson. I remember that stretch of Lower leeson as a teenager passing it on the 46A c.1984/5. Around nos 10-20 Lwr Leeson were briefly squatted by the infamous ‘keltic klan’ group of punks (who included in their number a young Pauge Behan).
One of the problems with nice old photographs like these is that they tend to spark a comparison between ‘then’ and ‘now’, and, in the comparison, ‘now’ usually doesn’t do very well.
@tommyt wrote:
Alexr college was there before moving out to the burbs in the 60s AFAIK. The dereliction of Earlsfort Terrace takes up a good section of ‘The Destruction of Dublin’- apparently it was held speculatively for 20 years as a cleared site apart from the then derelict terrace on lwr Leeson. I remember that stretch of Lower leeson as a teenager passing it on the 46A c.1984/5. Around nos 10-20 Lwr Leeson were briefly squatted by the infamous ‘keltic klan’ group of punks (who included in their number a young Pauge Behan).
Yeah my early memories of Earlsfort Terrace is the long hoarding along the cleared side.
That one’s been doing my head in too. The homepage says ‘A street in the red-light district where many brothels reside’, so that narrows it a bit, but equally, it might all be gone. That’s certainly one impressively regimented terrace.
@ctesiphon wrote:
That one’s been doing my head in too. The homepage says ‘A street in the red-light district where many brothels reside’, so that narrows it a bit, but equally, it might all be gone. That’s certainly one impressively regimented terrace.
could be summerhill – which I’ve only seen photos of the back off prior to demolition
certainly the right area for the description newgrange
personally the juvenile in me always like the fact that beaver street and beaver close was in the montoA later picture of the same spot, from Terry Fagan’s ‘Monto – Madams, Murder and Black Coddle’
@newgrange wrote:
A later picture of the same spot, from Terry Fagan’s ‘Monto – Madams, Murder and Black Coddle’
A great book-highly recommended- I got my copy in the barbers under the railway arch on Amiens st of all places.
For the record I do have a photo of myself and a group of friends tittering and pointing at the street sign for beaver street from a while back:o. it was still there up until 3/4 years ago on a pebble dashed wall before those new apartments were built on site
“Mrs Fagan looks out her window she was the tenent to leave Foley Street in the 1980s”
http://www.dublinfolklore.ie/Yes. It’s where the park is now.
There’s another picture from more or less the same spot in the North Inner City Folklore Project’s 1999 calendar.Another shot from the same calendar.
Foley Street.@Paul Clerkin wrote:
is this denmark street? with the junction going down to rutland place?
I don’t think its Rutland Place, Paul – it’s much narrower than this shot… It is North Central Dublin though, and the year is 1948 – the election posters for Clann na Poblachta and Fine Gael give candidates names… Maybe Monto? 😎
@hutton wrote:
I don’t think its Rutland Place, Paul – it’s much narrower than this shot… It is North Central Dublin though, and the year is 1948 – the election posters for Clann na Poblachta and Fine Gael give candidates names… Maybe Monto? 😎
Could it be the junction of Denmark/Hill st?. If it is there is a single storey corner shop adjoining that gable on site now. I am a bit thrown by the adjoining doorways though… might cycle that way tonight out of curiosity
Nope, building in photo has extra storey
it’s going to drive me mental – its definitely ”
place” on the sign – http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=8d3247e5df5775e5_largeThat doorway arrangement is pretty distinctive too
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