Paul Clerkin
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Here’s a little piece I came across on the carvings in the museum
Assistance required – 1957 “églises de france reconstruites”
Assistance required – 1957 “églises de france reconstruites”
Apologies if already here – just dont recall seeing it…. the former Stafford St, now Wolfe Tone
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From The Building News, September 12 1873
The Irish Times mentions the arrival in Dublin of Mr. John M. Barry, architect, and pupil of the late W.F. Caldbeck, Harcourt-street, Dublin. Mr. Barry has returned to his family residence in Rathmines after an absence of nineteen years in Melbourne, Australia, in which far-distant colony he has left many public buildings of which he was the architect, including the Western Market, Melbourne; S. Patrick’s Hall, and the(Boman)Catholic Church at Kiela, a few miles from Melbourne, &c. Besides these and other public buildings in Australia, Mr. Barry built a large number of villas and private residences in the colony.
This shows the corner shop facade
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View from inside the railway station looking out at Dun Laoghaire
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Description of works
The line leaves the up rails of the Great Southern and Company at King’s Bridge Station, passes through the side underground of their station building under the office, continues under the South Quays, until it passes Essex, when it immediately commences to rise and gains the surface Metal Bridge by one in forty gradient. In order to rise it takes water at Essex Bridge and for that purpose narrows the river there first building an inside parapet wall shutting out the water so that will be constructed and rise between the two walls, and in the same it descends from the Central Station at the eastern side. From the side of Central Station the line will be forked viz: A line descending I in 40 under the South Quays and Westmoreland/ street and rising to Kingstown line a little below Westland row Station by 1 in 40 and thus the traffic from Westland row down will cross the proposed traffic up. A line descending I in 40 under the North Quays and Sackville street, and rising I in 40 to join the Dublin and Drogheda line running through Amiens street station.
The traffic is then to be carried over the Drogheda line as far as Canal Bridge, from which point a branch is to be made to the premises of the London and North Western Company, and also to the extreme end of the North Wall, passing over the authorised line of the Dublin Port and City Company, and taking the ground there over which that company have parliamentary powers and where they commenced their works which were suspended during the commercial monetary crisis of 1866. Approaching the North Wall a junction is also proposed to be made with the Liffey branch of the Midland Great Western Railway, over which and back over the Dublin and Drogheda Company’s line it is proposed to enable the traffic of that line to reach the Central Station.
The Central Station is to be constructed on iron girders which are to span the River Liffey between Carlisle and Essex Bridges. which is to be covered in from bridge to bridge, on which this structure is to be erected. The property between Merchants Quay and Essex Bridge, as well as that on Bachelor’s walk is referenced to be purchased for the purpose of the works .
It’s never that simple – even if the Act had been passed, the scheme needed subscribers or investors. And The Railway News, was the journal that was read by those in the industry and they were opposed to the scheme on financial grounds – that there wouldnt be a dividend, that the costs were under-represented.
And I believe that the Corporation has also spent a large (for then) amount of money hiring an agent etc to oppose the scheme at Parliament.
Also opposed by Dublin Port and City Railway Co., the Tramways Co, etc on the ground that the petitioners did’t own the properties involved. The Railway News alludes to that too, suggesting that they seemed reluctant to put their money into the scheme other that to fund the application.
http://books.google.ca/books?id=6XYDAAAAQAAJ&dq=dublin%20central%20station&pg=PA283#v=onepage&q=dublin%20central%20station&f=falseCultural quarter plan for Parnell Square
City council plans new cultural quarter on north side
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/cultural-quarter-plan-for-parnell-square-1.1349351From An Poblacht (which I refuse to link to)
Dublin City Council urges rejection of shopping mall plan for Moore Street 1916 site
TODAY’S report by Dublin City Council on the future of the near-derelict National Monument site of Moore Street – last post of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising before their surrender to the British Army – recommends to Heritage Minister Jimmy Deenihan rejection of a plan by commercial property developers dominated by a shopping mall.find it on a website near you….
I have seen this one, I’d just like a see a photo where the building was more visible – terribly elusive.
I located some photos of the hotel including interiors on the UK Railway Museum web-archives
The guys who wrote those pieces in The Indo and Times, Frank Cairns and Karl Jones, get a mention In Destruction of Dublin – they were very developer friendly, maybe too friendly.
