Luke Gardnier
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Gentlemen not forgetting that other service of present day Irish recreational life the omnipresent XRAVISION outlet with its unique architectural and good design features to blend / bland in with the other essential services as mentioned above.
I see the Sunday Times have compiled a supplement on the essential most noteworthy places to visit in Britain and Ireland and have listed over the the last two Sundays for Ireland the Burren and Glendalough, among a few other places that I can’t recall but they are surprised / note in the article that no renovations / protection of what remains have been carried out in Glendalough since the 19th C they plan to cover for Ireland in this weekend’s supplement Kilmainham Gaol.
Some other places in Ireland mentioned:
Carrick-a Rede rope bridge Co. Antrim
Clonmacnoise Monastery
Iniscrone, SligoThe supplement is called ‘AMAZINGPLACES’
100 Great escapes in Britain and Ireland. So there you go escape!! inside Kilmainham Gaol this Sunday !!For a small city Belfast has great infrastructure in the form of city bypasses, rail-links and two Airports with the City Airport linked to Central Station. And some great buildings/venues old and new from the modern Waterfront Hall to the unique Crown Liquor Saloon at the start of the Golden Mile from the Europa Hotel down to Shaftesbury Square. Welll worth a visit if you have never been.
The BBC rightly recommend a visit to ‘Ceol’ – ..’the Irish Traditional Music Exhibition in Dublin’s Smithfield’ ..must inform them it was barely opened when it then closed…. how did Dublin Tourism let this happen ..there should have been no problem marketing ‘Ceol’ as its what we are supposed to be famous for !! well not so long ago at least..love to know the answer – probably turned into an extension of the Hotel bar in Smithfield. This would be like arriving in Greenwich and been told the Naval museum has closed !!
Take a bow Ian Ritchie (Architect) and like another Englishman (Jack Charlton) you have made a lasting impression on Ireland / our Capital City Dublin and like Jack you have made us look up and notice…you must have had advice from Jack….get it high and up and over the opposition (the sad fools).
“…ignorance, fear and the inability to take risks are the common ingredients of a non-creative environment..”
Ian Ritchie 1999
Well said Ian
Could be an apt way to describe all the so soon to evaporate begrugers !!
…. then take a trip to Tallaght and view the bedlam of banal boring development around the Square…and view what they consider a focal point for that so wronged (by planners and architects) community a 20 ft Totum Pole !! in the old village….and what passes for New Street a wind swept narrow enclosed in your face canyon of of banality and traffic bollards…..and all this is an example of modren Irish architecture and planning…the 70s lives on out west.
……..dead on…….but sitting around an open fire enjoying a few pints of Guinness and listening to U2 or the Corrs being piped into your ears just could not compare to a good in situ pub trad / ballad session.
North King Street that famous highway that leads to the architects and engineers of Bolton Street and that once great venue for a session of trad The Four Seasons. Was down Smithfield way over the Christmas the skating square was very popular but way too small for all wishing to skate. Decided on safety grounds to have a few pints in the Cobblestone Bar one of the last session bars in the city – what a pity. Whilst there enjoying the music I thought how ironic that Dublin / Ireland has lost its short lived museum (located in Smithfield) of Irish traditional song and music we seem to be also loosing our bodhran and fiddle players that once played in so many real pubs like The Beal Bocht, The Four Seasons, Teach Thomas, Flannerys, The Meeting Place, Slatterys, Mc Dowells, Neptune Rowing Club and many more. The late great Luke Kelly would surely wonder at Dubliners skating on ice and have a go himself but would then walk the streets in disbelief at the demise of the real trad and ballad session that were once an integral part of so many famous inner city Dublin pubs.
CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST:
This failed bid for EURO 08 will hopefully result in some realism setting into the post BC (Before Charlton) supporters. We never stood a chance not only on the fact that no plans were even in place for stadia but also on the fact that soccer is relatively a new comer to most people (post EURO 88) in this country when compared to any other country in Europe. We have the least developed National League AND CONSEQUENTLY STADIA in Europe and this is not all the fault of the FAI. It’s a wonder that the FAI were not outlawed as an illegal organisation who’s aim was to distract the youth of our free state from playing our National Games. Up until the 70s the Guards would chase young lads for playing soccer on the quiet roads of the Corpo estates. When this state was founded a deliberate policy was implemented by government and Catholic schools to ensure that the garrison English game of soccer would be suppressed at every opportunity and confined to the back-streets of the garrison towns (Dublin, Cork, Dundalk, Sligo etc). The big arm of the GAA with their bans on foreign games also ensured that the game or its necessary infrastructure and political support never developed as would have been the case in any other country. The GAA has always to a large extent been FF at play and compared to soccer rugby always has had the support of Irish business. Basically soccer was supported and managed by ordinary Joes in ordinary jobs. So for most “fans†soccer was only invented in Stutgart on Sunday June the 12th 1988……… and who can never forget that horrible sight of Haughey running around the stadium in Rome at Italia 90 waving the Tricolour at “his peopleâ€. None of “them†were at EURO 88 because soccer was not fashionable and they did not realise the national latent fervour that was to emerge post EURO 88. I should think now after the farce of bidding for EURO 08 that the necessary support from government and Irish big business will emerge to make up for years of neglect and indifference to soccer and will finally result in the necessary infrastructure been developed to support due to international success what now ironically has become our National Game !!
Up the Saints – Hang in there Pat Dolan.
‘Unused lands’ in intact and most unique 18th century setting been ‘considered’ for sale !!
Someone saw this coming like an express train !!
Originally posted by John Callery November 2000 as part of discussion topic – Office Blocks @ Kilmainham Gaol & Royal Hospital.
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Latest news from Kilmainham is that Sile Dev Velera is anxious after she shifts Mr Mc Gonagle as curator of IMMA (cue presently under way) that she intends moving the IMMA to “the more fashionable docklands†this is a prelude to the opening up of the ancient lands of the Royal Hospital for “renewal and development†– more LEGO to be built – but now in the grounds of the Royal Hospital – we always suspected that these ancient massive inner city grounds would have “progressive developers†wishing – “if only we could get in thereâ€. Now the way is being planned and without a doubt we shall read of some great plan in the future of ‘renewal’ !! to facilitate them in and over the wall from Kilmainham Gaol when the vacation of the IMMA is announced.{QUOTE}The only street markets that we have left lie along Meath Street and Thomas Street of a Saturday and again as Simon rightly says we are treated like cattle, everyone including babies in buggies fighting to walk along narrow footpaths and been gassed by gridlock traffic that would not be allowed to traverse these so narrow streets on ‘market day’ in most foreign cities. DCC have no interest in city markets and would love to drive the last of the small traders out of the Liberties and the rest of us to Dunnes and Superquinn ……….do they work hand in hand ??
Saw this myself last night but the most puzzling thing to me is that the architect(s) designed solid walls with the consequent resulting condensation (frozen air outside warm moist air inside) and health problems. For that major design fault alone it’s a wonder they stood so long. The problems relating to waste disposal (bottles rattling down the chutes at 2am) was another that should have been envisaged. But I agree if properly built and managed similar blocks in Dublin could have provided much needed student type accommodation and then probably six packs been hauled up the chutes at 2am !! Another scheme of these type blocks stands on St. Michaels Estate, Emmet Road Dublin 8.
This thing should be levelled and no ‘new improved’ version should be imposed on us again to stand for another 40 years.
Methinks the arrival of the full Russian Philharmonic Orchestra will tempt me onto the number 19 bus and over to the self-financing Helix…for if they were to play the NCH they would not have room for their instruments on its so inadequate stage and primitive backstage facilities.
Visit http://www.scotsman.com and read opinion on Euro 2008 joint bid. Certainly makes interesting reading from a Scottish point of view . Boy they must be so sorry that they did not team up with their Welsh neighbours for this one. I bet heads will roll in Scotland over this one and our “Carry on Gang” will hang on to theirs as is usual here.
SPORT > HOT TOPICS > EURO 2008 BID.
Go and view the interiors at Beacons Court Sandyford. It shows that by including the interior designer as part of the ‘design team’ from early on more than the average pots and plants and the now mandatory lump of iron in the foyer can emerge into the built environment.
Interior design is totally dependent on the developer’s brief and if he considers it seriously or even important. As most development is speculative the interior design is not high on the agenda no more than the architectural finish or profile is a lot of the time.
INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND.
Conducted tour of Shackleton’s Flour Mills, Lucan currently being conserved by Fingal County Council
Saturday 7th September @ 3pm.
Croatia, what a preserved (despite the recent war) and protected architectural heritage they have. Sure hope you visited traffic free / architectural gem Dubrovnik and Korshula while you were there.
The DTO transport map as shown in the Times on Saturday sure looks the part. At a glance one would think it was a plan of the London Tube. It’s just so depressing to read the title i.e. How Dublin’s rail / Metro system MAY LOOK in 2016 !! – a little early to be handing this plan out at the arrivals hall in Dublin airport. As was stated in the Tribune yesterday nearly every city in Europe (not just the Capitals) can plan and have implemented Metro systems in during lows and highs in economic activity. Of course not all European governments are obsessed with buying the rural vote for the last 70 years and to hell with the needs of city dwellers.
