Old pictures of Dublin
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Perhaps some help. I am doing a history Podcast on the area of Dublin 8 and the Guinness company. I am trying to track down some imagery of the slums and tenaments of Dubin during the 1900s. It is important that I can get right to use the images as they will be displayed on web for people to download and listen to the stories and watch the images. any help that can be given in this matter is truly appreciated.
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Sam
Why not try the National Photographic Archive on Meetinghouse Square.
@GrahamH wrote:
Brilliant! How is it that they both had names?
Thank god it was removed before it developed a pesky cultural significance.
Donnelly Sausages… Don-Nelly, geddit?
It’s been removed? Damn!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaA0LWRaNqY
Part 1 of Éamonn MacThomáis’s Dublin (get parts 2-8 in the related videos). Only 30 years ago but a completely different city. Seemingly every half a minute in these videos you want to cover your face because the city is so ripped assunder.
What was MacThomais like?! I remember seeing him one day in the 1990s in what used to be Switzers, Grafton St., on the charm offensive with a couple of American tourists. He was rolling out the Dublinisms and they were lapping it up 🙂 A great oul character.
@Devin wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaA0LWRaNqY
Part 1 of Éamonn MacThomáis’s Dublin (get parts 2-8 in the related videos). Only 30 years ago but a completely different city. Seemingly every half a minute in these videos you want to cover your face because the city is so ripped assunder.
What was MacThomais like?! I remember seeing him one day in the 1990s in what used to be Switzers, Grafton St., on the charm offensive with a couple of American tourists. He was rolling out the Dublinisms and they were lapping it up 🙂 A great oul character.
His son Shane now does the guided tour of Glasnevin cemetary.
Eamon was a guest of the state (during the ’70s ?) for his Republican beliefs.
I’m really enjoying this thread.
I’m not sure if flickr accounts have been included yet but here is a link to photographs worth a look.http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?q=moore%20street&w=48889078629%40N01&m=pool
Does anyone have any further documentation of Moore St. of old please?
The shame of the birthplace of Richard Brindsley Sheridan (right of The Moy pub) allowed to fall into ruin.
some excellent before and after pictures here of Dublin that i thought would suit this thread. (hover mouse over old picture to get then the new picture)
Cool movie of Dublin streets in ’82, including a drive down Grafton Street
Capel Street, from DCC Libraries site (http://dublincitypubliclibraries.com/image-galleries/digital-collections):
Looking for a shot of Denmark House, on Little Denmark Street. I recall seeing one maybe 20 years ago, but damned if I can find the book it was in.
Can’t recall seeing any decent pictures of Denmark Street. We are talking about the Denmark Street that was cleared and the site absorbed into the ILAC Center?
There was a history of Moore Street published before Christmas, perhaps there was something in that.
I came across this cutting from a newspaper which isn’t dated [but was in with other stuff from 1975] announcing the development of the Ilac Centre, which is interesting for the sheer time-warpiness of its modernity.
Yeah it was cleared for the ILAC. Do you have a larger scan of that – really deserves to go on main site.
Hey Paul:)
I have lost count of how many times I have seen a picture in a book and then months later when trying to find it realising I’ve forgotten which book it was in. In most cases it was some old publication in Rathmines Library!
I don’t recall seeing a decent photo of Denmark House, but I think there is a Line drawing in Pearsons “The Heart of Dublin”.
Nice pic of the ILAC Centre proposal, redolent of many developments in the UK in this era. Of course, the original plans for the ILAC (which I suspect this captures partly) were alot more grandiose. It encompassed twice the retail space, 400k sq ft as opposed to 200k sq ft, two 14 storey office blocks, a hotel , leisure centre and theatre!! Looking at the sketch above it would certainly not have been award winning architecturally, but, might have been preferable to the single storey flat roof utilitarian rubbish that was built…..a suburban mall plonkered into a prime City Centre location.
C
lol Gunter, I know what you mean by time warpiness……does it remind you slightly of the models used as streetscapes in the Thunderbirds Series…..a 60s take on what the world of tomorrow would look like:)
I see to recall reading somewhere about a concept with large plastic panels across the facade – am guessing this is it…
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
I seem to recall reading somewhere about a concept with large plastic panels across the facade – am guessing this is it…
I have that recollection too, but I’m not sure which version of the ILAC proposal was the classy one with plastic panels.
thebig C is correct, as reportedly approved, the ILAC was to have 400,000 sq. feet of retail space, a theatre, two cinemas, a restaurant and bar, sporting facilities and an office block.
Apologies for the picture resolution, the newsprint quality was great in the first place and time has taken its toll too.
This is a similarly upbeat announcement of that appalling office block on South Great George’s Street when it was still just an ‘artist impression’ and hadn’t yet become a concrete reality.
Great stuff Gunter….do you have many more of these Newspaper cuttings?
I am slightly confused though, was the “Smarts” Building previously part of Pims Department Store. I was always under the impression that Wicklow House ands Castle House were on the Pims site, afterall, based on Illustrations I have seen Pims was approx 20 bays in Length.
C
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